On Monday 10 September 2012 15:14:26 Adam Williamson wrote:
I don't think that's true, actually. There certainly are devs
who take
advantage of the model.
Exactly. Think glibc as another example. Back then when the glibc people did
their development work on Branched it was generally viewed as too disruptive.
So the current development branch is only in Rawhide. F18 has the 2.16 release
instead which matured in Rawhide since right after F17 was branched off.
Of course, there's nothing in Lennart's proposal which would prevent that way
of work. But still, the early branching model does have its advantages.