Dear Robert,
in message 20031016095613.GJ25427@pengutronix.de you wrote:
I know that this is not an easy decision for you and I've already accepted that we have to live with our own -ptx patches for some time; long term I would embrace if you could decide to have a clear separation between a stable and unstable branch.
I spend a lot of time working with different branches of some source tree, so this is something I will try to avoid for U-Boot. There are clearly marked stable versions (x.y.0), and there are "unstable" or "development" versions. This is what we have now, and what I intend to stay with for the foreseeable future.
U-Boot is not such a big project with many independ groups of developers working on different areas. Even bigger contributions like support for a new hardware architecture are usually pretty orthogonal to existing code - or can be made so.
I do not see the need for an "unstable branch". On contrary, I am convinced that a second branch in the public source tree would only increase the necessary maintenance efford.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk