Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2009, #01; Tue, 03)

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:53:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

But in reality, contributors who had leftover topics on 'next' simply
stopped working on their topics on 'next' without spending the freed up
time on concentrating on 'master'.  In an ideal world, the choice would be
between "git time on 'next'" vs "git time on 'master'", and closing 'next'
was meant to force the choice, but instead the outcome became "less git
time until 'next' reopens".

I think that is a reasonable argument for keeping 'next' open, and it
seems to be borne out by this experiment (the post-1.6.2 period seemed
no better or worse for bugfixes to me).

Now the only problem with keeping next open is that the maintainer
misses out on the relative lull in activity during release freeze to
catch up on his day job work. But if you can handle that, I'm certainly
in no position to complain. :)

-Peff