On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Erik Iverson wrote:
I assumed I had to switch to the maint branch in order to get the
7.01
release. How could I have done this while staying on the master
branch?
Basically, as long as you're on master, you'll always have the
latest and greatest, which may or may not be what you want.
At certain times, including in the past few days, 'master' is deemed
release-worthy, and a stable release is produced. However,
development goes on in the master branch.
The maint branch was created so that small bugs in the latest
release could be fixed and updated, without having to include
whatever major developments might have happened on master in the
mean time.
The main reason for making releases at all are
- to produce a fall-back if the current master does not work
for you because it is buggy. This happen only rarely here
and only for short times.
- To give alternative distributions like the Debian package
a point of reference, a signal that this state of Org
is reasonably well tested and stable.
Kind regards
- Carsten
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