Re: [matplotlib-devel] which to fork from?

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Paul Ivanov <piv...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Daniel Hyams <dh...@gm...> wrote:
>> For small bugfixes, am I supposed to fork from v1.1.x, or master?
>
> I say 'master'  (Mike's been pushing some things to v1.1.x, but as he
> said in a comment to #551, "Pushed to v1.1.x since this is pretty
> serious yet simple-to-fix bug -- it should be on the maintenance
> branch.")

Concurring with everything above, with color.  It it's a feature, it
should definitely go on master.  If it's a serious bug, it should go
on maintenance.  If it's a minor bugfix, we can exercise discretion:
if it's simple put it on maintenance; it it's complex, put it on
master.