Re: GNOME_STABLE--PURPOSE?

[Junichi Saito <j saito wanadoo fr>]

On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

>
>> I may have missed something, but what is the point of
>> having a GNOME_STABLE branch? 
>
>We thought it was going to be a good way to stabilize GNOME but it was
>a mistake.  The problem is that HEAD and GNOME_STABLE were constantly
>getting out of sync (and we were spending far more time syncronizing
>the trees than fixing the code)
>
>Now we are putting carefully the code in HEAD.
>
>When GNOME 1.0 actually goes out, we will actually do a branch.  Not
>before.

Are the existing GNOME_STABLE branches (gnome-core, gnome-libs)  kept on
the servers and once 1.0 will be out, the changes will be merged to them ?
Or will entirely new stable branches be set up then ?

 
junichi