Stable releases of Bazaar?

[Colin D Bennett]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:41:43 +0200
David Ingamells <david.ingamells at mapscape.eu> wrote:

> 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?

I just have to pipe in and say that one of the things I am very
impressed with about Bazaar is the rock solid stability of every
release--and even bzr.dev!

So I fear that if bzr were to begin using a "stable" and "unstable"
concept of versions, we might get sloppier about the code going into
the mainline...

I appreciate what John Arbash Meinel wrote at
http://jam-bazaar.blogspot.com/2008/06/this-week-in-bazaar.html:

  By having the PQM running the test suite, developers can run on the
  bleeding edge, and know that they won't get random breakage. It is
  always possible that something will break, but the chance is quite
  low. (In 2000 or so commits since we started using PQM, I believe
  bzr.dev has never been completely unusable, and has had < 5 revisions
  which we would not recommend people use.)

  It also means that you can be fairly confident in creating a release
  directly from your integration branch (mainline).

Regards,
Colin
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