Rejiggering the branches

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:52:01 +0200, Rudolf Schlatte said:
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> "Robert Goldman" <rpgoldman at sift.info>
> writes:
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> > 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.

Yes, that's the kind of name I meant.

Or include the stableness in the name with something like "stable/3.3"
(c.f. FreeBSD).

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Martin Simmons
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