From: URABE Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2006-11-09T19:37:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Future Plans for Ruby 1.8 Series

Marc Haisenko wrote:
> Is there no tag for 1.8.5 ? If there is, why not branch from that, apply the 
> patch, set the version number to 1.8.5.1, 1.8.5a, 1.8.6 or whatever and tag 
> that ?
>
> This should be fairly simple, after all that's what VCS' are for. Or am I 
> missing something ? 

No.  That's plan (1).  But once you make a branch on CVS you cannot
cancel that.  Creating a branch on CVS needs extreme cares so I (and
other core team members) don't want to hurry forward.