Stable Loggerhead Branch

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On 07/01/2010 08:39 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
> I agree.  Basically what I meant is that you should manage the
> released branches pretty much as we do in bzr which is that clearly
> safe bug fixes can come in but nothing else.

	Okay, yeah, fully agreed.

> I think for any patch someone puts up (fix, feature, stability,
> performance, whatever) there at any time there should be _a_ possible
> path  to it landing, whether that is into a release branch or trunk.
> If the particular implementation looks unsafe then it's ok to ask it
> be made more safe or tested etc.  But I wouldn't like to see a state
> where new features with sane implementations are not allowed to land
> on either 1.18 or trunk.

	Yeah, I agree that it's ideal to be able to always accept patches. I
think ultimately, it's impossible to make the decision in the abstract,
though--we'll probably have a clearer idea when we actually have
decisions to make on a case-by-case basis.

	-Max
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