Re: Release schedule - to branch or not to branch

[Alexander Malmberg]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> The frequent semi-stable releases would solve this. In addition to
> normal version tag, we would have a moving LATEST_SEMISTABLE tag. You
> only need to specify this once (eg. cvs update -r LATEST_SEMISTABLE),
> and when you update (a plain "cvs update -Pd" will do), you will get the
> latest tagged semi-stable version.
> 
> (It might be a good idea to maintain such a tag even if we don't have
> actual semi-stable releases.)

I've asked around a bit, and there is a fair amount of interest in such
a tag. Thus, regardless of  what becomes of the release process (and
until), I'd like to start maintaining such a tag
("alex_latest_semistable"?). Objections? Thoughts?

- Alexander Malmberg