4.6.1 release process proposal

[Nick Schermer]

2009/1/16 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:
> I guess that extensive use of branches (with a proper version control
> system) will help a lot in theses cases, where features can be
> developed in parallel to the main branch and can be merged into it with
> a little amount of time and code changes.

Yes that would be very nice. Right now with mayor changes there are
huge patches sitting in bugzilla (like with the wnck merge, upcoming
libxfce4ui) without much attention/testing because they are quickly
outdated and thus hard to commit. Branches could definitely improve
this process.

Nick