[Releasing] ODP: rethinking the branching scheme

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 01:30:18PM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em sex 21 fev 2014, às 16:25:17, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> > on top of that, your idea to automatically "force" the latest stable on
> > the "consumers" has a downside: it makes it actively hard to use the
> > "oldest version that works" approach (which is a quite reasonable one to
> > prevent accidentally requiring too new api).
> 
> Stable contains "oldest version that works" by definition.
>
uhm, no, it doesn't. it contains "the latest version we consider
stable (duh)". oldest is the opposite of latest.