Stable releases of Bazaar?

[David Ingamells]

Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>   
>> For people to be happily using stacking with launchpad we need them to
>> install 1.6.
>>     
>
> Or perhaps 1.7. The 1.6 release changes a lot of things and is
> therefore likely to have more than its share of bugs.
>
>   
Has the Bazaar team considered identifying certain releases as stable 
releases which will enjoy ongoing support with bug fixes being applied?

Bazaar is now mature enough with a large enough user base for this to be 
beneficial. I agree with Jonathan's  remark above (without any criticism 
of the Bazaar team intended): I am reluctant to move to 1.6 because of 
the number of major changes that will appear in this release, however I 
am suffering from some problems with 1.5 (with bzr+ssh://) that are 
likely solved in 1.6. I therefore have a quandary.

I am very aware of the burden added by stable release support as that is 
one of my roles within my team (I often have to integrate the same fix 
into 3 different releases); the benefit is a stable environment for the 
users with the ability to control when new features are rolled out.