Re: stable/2.12 and tagging of tarballs

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:53:55PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Graham
> Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 12:15:36PM -0300, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> >> This is completely backwards: the definition of a stable release (or
> >> rather: stable branch), is that it is bugfix only.
> >
> > Well, we have a month or two of bugfixes only.
> 
> Right - I am not saying that there must be a lot of work going on in
> the stable branch, it's just that it is not intended to be stagnant.

Ok, I think we've reached some agreements: I wouldn't say that the
stable branch is *intended* to be stagnant, either.  If somebody
wants to backport things and make releases, I certainly won't
complain!

Cheers,
- Graham