Re: 1.5 stabilization procedure

On 17/10/2007, Jean-Marc van Leerdam <j.m.van.leerdam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 17/10/2007, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/17/07, Stefan.Fuhrmann@etas.de <Stefan.Fuhrmann@etas.de> wrote:
> > > * Who selects patches that shall go from /trunk into
> > > /branches/1.5.x?
> > * each developer decides himself whether a patch should get backported
> > to the stable branch
>
> AFAIK the stable branch should only get bugfixes, no new features...

We usually only follow that rule once the stable branch is, well,
stable. That only happens around the first RC.

Last time I think we branched too early and had to do a lot of merging
from trunk.

Simon

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