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Re: Release branch maintenance
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 07:29:06 +0530
- Subject: Re: Release branch maintenance
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:04:46AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Even if distro maintainers don't literally use the release branches, they
> are still the mechanism we have for public collaboration among distro
> maintainers to reach consensus on which fixes are good material for a
> stable branch. This is a benefit to the whole community.
Sure, but if that is the only use case then there would be no point in
expecting active maintenance of the branches, i.e. actively looking
for patches to backport and doing regular maintenance releases.
Siddhesh