On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:52:01 +0200, Rudolf Schlatte said:
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"Robert Goldman" rpgoldman@sift.info writes:
If stable seems bad, is there another name we could use to avoid renaming? Like maint for "maintenance"?
I don't love maint, because it's too close to main, and it seems like main has an edge in familiarity if not in meaningfulness.
legacy?
Unless we can come up with something better than stable, it seems like the least-worst alternative. But there's all week to come up with something better!
In the first email you said that the purpose of that branch was to permit continuation of the 3.3 release series, so maybe call the branch "v3.3"? That way, there can be multiple such branches without resorting to "stable", "oldstable" etc. names.
Yes, that's the kind of name I meant.
Or include the stableness in the name with something like "stable/3.3" (c.f. FreeBSD).