[TYPO3-core] Fixing no-brainers?

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Michael Scharkow schrieb:
> Ingmar Schlecht wrote:
> 
>> I'd propose to change this slightly, to:
>>  - 3.8 (same as above)
>>  - 4.0 (same as above)
>>  - 4.5 (what's called HEAD (4.1) above)
>>  - HEAD (5.0) (what's called 4.5 above)
> 
> Hm, that'd be lot's of commits to different branches for every patch.
> I've no idea of how incompatible 4.0 really is to 3.8, so I wonder
> whether it would not be less work and just as good results if:
> 
> 1. 3.8 is discontinued [...]

Read again: 3.8: (*only* security fixes)!

So no problem here.

> 2. The 4.x branch is continued with very conservative bug fixes for some
> years. This is our stable branch until 5.0 is out and even maintained
> after that

What are you talking about? 4.x or 4.0.x? What would your proposed list
of branches be?

cheers
Ingmar