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Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org-mode release 7.01


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Re: Org-mode release 7.01
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:45:35 +0200


On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Erik Iverson wrote:


I assumed I had to switch to the maint branch in order to get the 7.01 release. How could I have done this while staying on the master branch?

Basically, as long as you're on master, you'll always have the latest and greatest, which may or may not be what you want.

At certain times, including in the past few days, 'master' is deemed release-worthy, and a stable release is produced. However, development goes on in the master branch.

The maint branch was created so that small bugs in the latest release could be fixed and updated, without having to include whatever major developments might have happened on master in the mean time.

The main reason for making releases at all are

- to produce a fall-back if the current master does not work
  for you because it is buggy.  This happen only rarely here
  and only for short times.
- To give alternative distributions like the Debian package
  a point of reference, a signal that this state of Org
  is reasonably well tested and stable.

Kind regards

- Carsten




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