On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 10:28 +0000, Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 09:11 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > Instead of private branches for each maintainer, I'd like to create an > > official next branch to have better visibility to what is ready to go to > > the master branch after the release (and to ensure that the stuff in the > > next branch goes to the master branch in a timely manner - last time > > Arun's next branch was pushed three months after 3.0 was released). > > There was some opposition to an official next branch during the previous > > freeze, but perhaps it's different this time. > > So my objection to a next branch was that I didn't want to create a > permanent next branch for every release. I'm fine with doing a 'next' or > a 'next-4.0' as long as we delete the branch once 4.0 released (thereby > not having it polluting the upstream branch list). How does that sound? Sounds good to me. -- Tanu
