Re: release policy

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > We can always choose to stick with a troublesome stable branch for
> > longer if it turns out to need more work to iron out any bugs and
> > regressions rather than ploughing on with another head release...
> > thoughts?
>
> Yes, just one: this is INSANE.

Seconded.

The correct path forward is enforced stability in conjunction with 
sufficient cross-platform testing prior to release.

As for the library versioning, I recall that the reason why the 
numbers were bumped so far on HEAD was to make space for a release 
from the 2.0 branch (which never happened).

Bob
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