Re: Unreleased fixes in master

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, Ethan A Merritt via gnuplot-beta wrote:

> Non-trivial changes, even bug fixes, are applied only to the 
> development branch. Often people using the development branch then 
> report related issues that require additional fixes or re-thinking 
> of the original fix. After sufficient testing in the development 
> version the original fix and any follow-ups developed during 
> testing may or may not be back-ported to the stable branch.

Sounds like a sane policy to me.

The project I'm most involved with has a more "aggressive" 
development policy. The upside is that genuine fixes get out to 
users more quickly. The downside is that "fixes" with nasty 
unintended side effects also get out, in some cases requiring 
"emergency" releases and engendering regrets.

Given how widely gnuplot is used, I'm with Ethan on this.

Allin Cottrell