On Thu, Oct 30, 2025, at 20:42, Junio C Hamano wrote:

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" [off-list ref] writes:

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2025, at 18:40, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:

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Would it make sense for maintenance releases to have a small release
candidate pre-release?  Both of these maintenance releases have had
issues.

Well, that is usually called "the tip of 'master'".  Has NonStop
been having issues with the tip of 'master'?  For how long?  Why
haven't we heard about it at all?  After things are merged there
(which requires them to be cooking in 'next'---oh, has NonStop been
having issues with 'next'?  For how long?), only fixes are chosen
and merged to 'maint' to be the next maintenance release.
...
I doubt any pre-release on 'maint' has much value in that anybody who
are not testing the tip of 'master' would not be testing it either.

You are probably 99.9% likely to be correct.