[zeromq-dev] 0MQ/3.0, 0MQ/4.0 and 0MQ process

[Martin Lucina]

sustrik at 250bpm.com said:
> > As for the rollback of 4.0, are there commits in 4.0 that are not in 3.0
> > that would want to be kept in the new 3.0-tracking master?  I'm just
> > confused as to why the reverting would happen if the plan is simply to
> > make 3.0 master, and 4.0 'experimental', when you can just rename
> > libzmq/master to libzmq/experimental, and push current zeromq3-0/master
> > as libzmq/master.
> 
> How would that solve the problem of separating the "stable" patchsets 
> from "experimental" patchsets? Whatever way you take you have to 
> manually inspect all the patches and move them either onto "stable" 
> branch or on individual topic branches.
> 
> I am not against better way of doing this -- it would save me large 
> amount of ultimately boring unpaid work -- however, I don't see any 
> other way out at the moment.

I'm not sure that renaming the libzmq/master branch is a good idea, what
would that do in practice to people tracking that branch in their clones of
the repository?

-mato