Re: To branch or not to branch

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>>> I think we should branch now. What do others think?
>>
>> Needless to say that I agree, but as you witnessed nobody else
>> bothers to reply.
>
> Sorry, I got the impression that we already made a decision to do so.
> For the record, I also agree.
>
>> Discussions on MRs opened during the weekend also showed me that
>> we're not even on one page for what should still go in before
>> branching,
>
> As mentioned, I leave this decision to you: Please define a commit
> that you want to use for branching.
>
>> and now it seems you went back to feature development.
>
> Why is this a problem?  Isn't the idea that a release is based on a
> 'stable' branch, and that normal development continues on 'master'?

For that idea to apply, you first need a stable branch.

-- 
David Kastrup