RELEASE_X_Y_Z branches/tags maintained??

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:37:54AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Kris Kennaway um 0:30:
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:19:36PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > > 
> > > I have a question regarding the branches/tags of the ports tree for
> > > stable releases. Are they in any way maintained.
> > 
> > No.
> 
> Hmm, wouldn't this be a good thing to do, especially on production
> machines? I would greatly appreciate that. I see no reason to do major
> updates (like x.1 -> x.2 only to get fixes in. For production machines I
> would prefer some kind of stability and conservativism.
> What is the problem with such a setup? Lack of interest? Lack of
> manpower? Or wrong philosophy?

Lack of manpower - it's a lot of extra work, and we already don't do a
great job of keeping up with the incoming PR load.

Kris
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