Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz <at> chello.at> writes: [...]
I admit that this is indeed bad wording, and not really what I had in mind. What I really meant was: branch if all features planned for the next release are in trunk. Then stabilize the branch, but do not wait with release until all bugs on all platforms are fixed, but allow for a gradual healing of the release branch until it comes to a halt because either no more bugs, or no interest from users. (Or no commits from commercial users that sell bug-fixing/platform-adaption to their customers.)
Considering that until now "all bugs fixed" meant really "for each regression test failure either fix it or mark it expected" and bug report statistics didn't enter the picture, I see no reason to slacken the current criteria. Cheers, Nicola Musatti