From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T03:38:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:30:32AM +0900, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
>   Parallel Model
> 
>   0.x -> 1.0 -> 1.1 -> ... -> 1.x
>           |
>           V
>          2.0 -> 2.1 -> ... -> 2.x
>           |
>           V
>          3.0 -> ...
> 
> The idea is that bug-fixes and compatible-only changes move from left to 
> right, all and others move down.  The only project I know that sort-of does 
> this much is Linux, but even there we see a lot of back porting and what not.

FreeBSD does exactly that (at the moment, 4.x = 'STABLE' and 5.x =
'CURRENT'; once 5.3 is released, it will become 'STABLE' and 6.x will become
'CURRENT'). Quite a bit gets back-ported from 5.x to 4.x though - it's not
as if it's a total project fork.

Regards,

Brian.