11 Feb
2015
11 Feb
'15
9:56 p.m.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:18:46 +0100 (CET) Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
Users care that the application they are using does not stop working and that's what can happen with the development branch.
That happens in the stable branch, too: when a new major stable release comes out, everything in the development branch goes into it, including unfixed regressions and bugs introduced by new features. The promise of "safe bugfixes only" only applies to minor releases in the stable branch, and most inexperienced users don't realize that.