Re: stable/2.12 and tagging of tarballs

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Graham
Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
> Err, did you send this privately deliberately?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:15:36PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Graham
>> Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
>> > That's true.  However, I chose to avoid having bugfixes on the
>> > stable release.  It's a simple question of resource allocation --
>> > how can we make best use out of the limited resources?
>>
>> This is completely backwards: the definition of a stable release (or
>> rather: stable branch), is that it is bugfix only.
>
> Well, we have a month or two of bugfixes only.

Right - I am not saying that there must be a lot of work going on in
the stable branch, it's just that it is not intended to be stagnant.

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