[IPython-dev] [IPython-User] [SciPy-User] [ANN] IPython 0.12 is out!

[Nicolas Chauvat]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 03:02:27PM -0800, Fernando Perez wrote:
> > cost of making 0.11.1 would have been lower than the time we spent
> > saying "duplicate of #XYZ, fixed in master" on GitHub.
> 
> Agreed.  It's easy enough to make such a branch after the fact, if it
> proves to be necessary, and to cherry pick anything from master we'd
> like to see in there.  I agree that we probably should have cut a
> 0.11.1 for that silly bug :)

+1 having a stable branch where only fixes can enter and a development
branch for the rest is a very common good practice.

> In this case there's an added incentive to a bugfix branch: while
> we'll most likely get 0.12 included in ubuntu 12.04, they won't do a
> version upgrade to 0.13.  But I think they do push minor bugfix-only
> updates, so it would help anyone in an environment that sticks to the
> default ubuntu LTS policies get at least the most critical fixes.

True. Distributions have their dev/stable phases too :)

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Nicolas Chauvat

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