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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: branching 3.3?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:26:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <90b44271-dea2-0a8e-bb58-011749614ac5@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXqUonfS6mQnXb9p@calimero.vinschen.de>

On 10/28/2021 8:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> what do you think about branching the Cygwin master branch into master
> and a 3.3 branch?  We could add bug fixes to the 3.3 series and working
> on new 3.4 stuff in master at the same time.  For 3.4 I was thinking of
> getting rid of some old cruft, as time permits.
> 
> Good, bad, ugly?

Seems like a good idea.  How exactly would it work?  Would bug fixes get applied 
to both branches?  Or would 3.3 just get merged to master from time to time?

Ken

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-28 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-28 12:16 Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-28 12:26 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-10-28 12:46   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-29  1:18 ` Mark Geisert
2021-10-29 23:11 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-30 19:17   ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-10-30 19:30     ` Ken Brown

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