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Re: We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value]


From: Petter
Subject: Re: We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:37:49 +0200

If I may make a suggestion, coming from a place of ignorance.

How about a stable branch that would be opt-in?

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:29:53 +0200
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > It’s a little unfortunate that packages are developed together with
> > everything else, because this means that there is no way for people to
> > opt out of breaking changes until the next release without also opting
> > out of getting any updates at all.  
> 
> It’s both a strength and a weakness I guess.  The good thing is that we
> can make changes that affect everything at once.  The bad thing is what
> you mention.
> 
> We could use feature branches more, with the downside that they would
> probably get little additional testing, precisely because one would have
> to choose between features and packages.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Ludo’.
> 




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