Rejiggering the branches

[Robert Dodier]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:04 PM Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:

> I have a mild preference for having the maintenance branch, whatever we call it, just point to whatever has been released and is accumulating bug fixes. I figured that having a stable would be like having a main, instead of renaming main to whatever the upcoming version number is.

Well, for what it's worth, I would suggest creating a new branch for
each release or release series, not that main or any branch is
renamed.

> Just like Debian has stable and testing, but the precise meaning of these changes over time.

Well, it is precisely this drifting meaning which, I believe, you are
better off avoiding.

best,

Robert Dodier