Purpose of and documentation for the next branch (was: Re: Branch "next" garbled)

Purpose of and documentation for the next branch (was: Re: Branch "next" garbled)

[Adrian Bradd]

Not 5 minutes later did I find this in another thread:

>> Also, I'd like to avoid making changes to "master" branch. It 
>> should be
>> considered frozen while we're waiting for Org 9.2. Please 
>> install next
>> new features (that one is OK, I guess) in "next" branch, and 
>> rebase it
>> on top of "master".

So the next branch is a temporary replacement for master while 
master is frozen awaiting a release?

> It might be worth the effort to document the role of the "next" 
> branch somewhere.

Perhaps on the worg developer page?

Adrian Bradd <adrian.bradd@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
>> To prevent further complications with this branch, I suggest to 
>> treat is
>> like master and master like maint. I.e., every commit done in 
>> master is
>> duplicated into next so that final merge is easier.
>
> Sorry if this is obvious, but what is the next branch?
>
> This is the first I have heard of it (not that my org-fu is all 
> that comprehensive). I took a look around but I couldn't find 
> any 
> details about it in the mail archives. Granted I wasn't 
> expecting 
> much from a search that included the phrase "next branch". It 
> isn't mentioned on worg in the developers section either 
> (https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/index.html).
>
> Cheers,

Cheers,

-- 
Adrian Bradd

Re: Purpose of and documentation for the next branch

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Adrian Bradd <adrian.bradd@gmail.com> writes:

> So the next branch is a temporary replacement for master while master
> is frozen awaiting a release?

Indeed.
>
>> It might be worth the effort to document the role of the "next"
>> branch somewhere.
>
> Perhaps on the worg developer page?

It's really a temporary thing because I didn't want to push more changes
into master. It will go away as soon as Org 9.2 is out, which shouldn't
be too long now. I don't think we need a documentation for that.

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou