On Friday, 21 May 2010 at 14:22, John Doe wrote: > Just curious, what was the reason devs got rid of the stable branch, > and only keep the dev branch...? > The advantage of the stable branch is that... it is stable (bug fixes > after bug fixes, it becomes more and more stable (unless the fixes > breaks something else of course) > On the other hand, the dev branch keep alternating between removing > bugs and adding new ones, all the time... > Was the merging of dev to stable too complicated? > Too many complains of missing features? > Just curious... Lack of man power, simply. Almost nobody seemed to care about a separate stable branch and those who did, burned out pretty fast. Regards, R. -- MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu | RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
