[maemo-developers] [Qt4Maemo-devel] The Summit: Git/Gitorious - Untracked talks: consider adding them...

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 20:57 +0200, Kees Jongenburger wrote:
> Now how do we manage adding features and back-porting simple bug fixes
> to the
> > stable release whilst you work on that big new feature set.
> 
> This is a typical problem of people working with closed source. In
> open-source you release once and might do some minor update
> for "real" big problems but overall should not have to maintain a
> release branch to to long as everybody wants the Latest & Greatest.
> "Release often" mantra

This is nonsense. Any project that doesn't have both a stable and an
unstable branch is either not being used by real people or has
stagnated. It's entirely normal.

But that has nothing to do with git, which I wouldn't try to defend.

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