Rejiggering the branches

[Rudolf Schlatte]

"Robert Goldman" <rpgoldman at sift.info>
writes:

> If stable seems bad, is there another name we could use to avoid renaming? Like maint for "maintenance"?
>
> I don't love maint, because it's too close to main, and it seems like main has an edge in familiarity if not in meaningfulness.
>
> legacy?
>
> Unless we can come up with something better than stable, it seems like the least-worst alternative. But there's all week to come up with something better!
>

In the first email you said that the purpose of that branch was to
permit continuation of the 3.3 release series, so maybe call the branch
"v3.3"?  That way, there can be multiple such branches without resorting
to "stable", "oldstable" etc. names.

Rudi