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The value of release bureaucracy

The value of release bureaucracy

Posted Apr 20, 2012 17:25 UTC (Fri) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
In reply to: The value of release bureaucracy by dlang
Parent article: The value of release bureaucracy

Yeah, but doesn't merging stable into mainline (either via git merge, or by manually checking if any commit is missing in mainline) achieve the same thing, and allow stable to immediately include fixes?


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The value of release bureaucracy

Posted Apr 20, 2012 17:26 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

no, because the fix in stable does not necessarily work with the other changes that have happened in the mainline.

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