Re: Re: Org-mode release 7.01

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Erik Iverson wrote:

>
>> I assumed I had to switch to the maint branch in order to get the  
>> 7.01
>> release.  How could I have done this while staying on the master  
>> branch?
>
> Basically, as long as you're on master, you'll always have the  
> latest and greatest, which may or may not be what you want.
>
> At certain times, including in the past few days, 'master' is deemed  
> release-worthy, and a stable release is produced.  However,  
> development goes on in the master branch.
>
> The maint branch was created so that small bugs in the latest  
> release could be fixed and updated, without having to include  
> whatever major developments might have happened on master in the  
> mean time.

The main reason for making releases at all are

- to produce a fall-back if the current master does not work
   for you because it is buggy.  This happen only rarely here
   and only for short times.
- To give alternative distributions like the Debian package
   a point of reference, a signal that this state of Org
   is reasonably well tested and stable.

Kind regards

- Carsten