[Interest] How do I get the most robust version of 5.10

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 12 April 2018 09:40:46 PDT william.crocker at analog.com wrote:
> On 04/12/2018 11:47 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Thursday, 12 April 2018 04:57:58 PDT Bill Crocker wrote:
> >> Why isn't there a 5.10.2
> > 
> > Because we had to kill one branch as we had too many open branches. We
> > have
> > 5.6, 5.9, 5.11 and dev left, which is the all-time high except for the few
> > weeks we also had 5.10. The developer community came to the consensus that
> > we couldn't support another 5.10.x release and still meet our commitments
> > for the other branches. So your fixes present in the 5.11 branch now,
> > which is in Release Candidate state as of today.
> 
> So, are you saying that the 5.10 branch has been abandoned.

No, it's been *closed*. There's a difference.

> If so, I do not think the web site should offer it as a
> download candidate.

Huh, why? What's the rationale for this?

> I saw that 5.11 was on the tip and, therefore, assumed that
> the latest 5.10 was good and stable.

It is.

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