On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:48:31PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> > > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 19:34:51 +0000 > > Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org > > > > When we did a new major release, would we merge "master" into "release"? > > No, you just cut a new release branch. The release branch is only for > a certain release or a series of releases, depending on the > development strategy. Basically, as long as you expect the next > release to be a bugfix release, you keep developing it on the same > release branch, and once you decide on a feature release, you cut a > new release branch. The name of the release branch can be the first > version released from that branch, or some variant of that.
Thanks, that makes sense.
