[flashrom] Future flashrom development

[Peter Lemenkov]

Hello Nico,

2017-10-13 2:40 GMT+02:00 Nico Huber <nico.h at gmx.de>:

> So I propose the following: Forget the two branches model, start
> a `master` branch with either the current state of `staging` or
> my proposed move to `stable` [3] and release flashrom-1.0 right
> away.

I believe staging/devel/etc branches in projects managed with git are
usually a troublesome legacy from old CVS/SVN days where
branching/tagging and patch management were expensive. They shouldn't
have even copied into Git repositores at all. Also flashrom
historically has a very flat and straightforward development model, so
why making two branches at all?

>From the package maintainer's point of view it would be easier and
simpler from if flashrom just have one single monotonically increasing
branch (master?) with tags applied to some commits eventually (I
prefer more frequent tagging though), rather than two branches where
the purpose of one is to be blindly merged into another.

-- 
With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.