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

[Kai Koehne]

> -----Original Message-----
> [...]
> > This also implies that bug fixes should now get pushed to the 5.9
> > branch and we should close the 5.8 branch soon.
> 
> I disagree. Even if you cannot produce releases from 5.8 anymore, that's our
> stable branch. 5.9 isn't stable, yet. If you release 5.9.0, *then* you can close
> 5.8. Do you really want stuff from 5.9 cherry-picked to 5.6?

Why should a patch merged into 5.8 right now be a better candidate to cherry-picking than one merged into 5.9? It runs through the same scrunity (CI).

IMO it's actually harmful to keep 5.8 open if we don't intend to make a release based on it. We keep the overhead of maintaining and merging multiple branches without any benefit.

My 2 cents,

Kai