Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

[Green, Paul]

jw schultz [mailto:jw at pegasys.ws] wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:24:57PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> > On 28 Jan 2003, "Green, Paul" <Paul.Green at stratus.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I think splitting the branches will also let us be a little more
> > > experimental in the development branch, at least until we get near
> > > the next release phase, because we'll always have the field release
> > > in which to make crucial bug fixes available quickly.
> > 
> > I agree that this would be a good approach if and only if there is
> > energy to do lots of development in the head branch.  What 
> > do you have in mind?
> 
> And if such development rendered the code sufficiently
> unstable that we couldn't safely release a new version for
> security patches, if needed.

Hold on a minute.  One of the major points in favor of splitting the tree is
so that we will have a stable version in which we can apply security
patches.  Do you disagree, or am I completely misunderstanding you here?

Thanks
PG
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