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From: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stable releases
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On 08/12/2015 01:37 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Scott Randby writes:
>> While I've used Org's development version in the past, I stopped doing
>> that due to my failure to learn how to use git (no time) and other
>> issues. Now, I only use the stable releases. But the latest 8.3
>> release doesn't seem so stable to me, so I'd like some clarification
>> about what the Org maintainers mean by a stable release. Perhaps this
>> is too vague, so let me explain a bit.
>
> There are no stable releases, but major and minor ones (see
> README_maintainer).  Major releases are developed in the master branch
> and include backwards-incompatible changes as well as new and removed
> features.  Minor releases are made from the maint branch and are kept
> backwards compatible to the last major release (only bug fixes, no new
> features, no feature removal).

If there are no stable releases, then maybe the web site should not say: 
"Stable version 8.3.1 (Aug. 2015)." Perhaps "stable" should just be 
eliminated from that phrase. Certainly, the use of "stable" confused me.

Scott