[Development] Focusing bug fixes to 5.9 branch and patch releases during H1/17

[Mat Sutcliffe]

On 18 February 2017 at 19:13, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

> On sábado, 18 de fevereiro de 2017 06:36:07 PST Mat Sutcliffe wrote:
> > Keeping 5.9.0 on schedule even while 5.8.0 blows past its planned release
> > date would seem to be appropriate when you have the capability to
> > concurrently maintain two minor (not patchlevel) release branches.
>
> That's exactly what Tuukka proposed we do. We keep 5.9.0 on schedule and,
> because of that, 5.8.1 becomes impossible and unnecessary.
>

My point was that this decision happened already on 29 November. That was
the original planned release date for 5.8.0, and also the day on which the
5.9.0 initial schedule was set. Could it have been predicted at that time
what the consequences might be for 5.8.1?
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