[Development] Proposal: Eliminate soft branching phase from release process

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:38:30AM +0000, Liang Qi wrote:
>2. patch releases, 1st one and others, for the first one, like 5.14.0 
>perhaps similar story like above. Anyway, for the patch releases, if 
>the changes missed this release, but still could happen in next. So I 
>think it’s better to remove the one week soft branching phase.
>
i strongly recommend against having different schemes for minor and 
release branches. some people find it hard enough to know what branches 
are in cherry-pick mode, and adding more policy variations is not going 
to help.