[MPlayer-users] Lack of releases

Fri May 21 14:34:52 CEST 2010

On Friday, 21 May 2010 at 14:22, John Doe wrote:
> Just curious, what was the reason devs got rid of the stable branch,
> and only keep the dev branch...?
> The advantage of the stable branch is that... it is stable (bug fixes
> after bug fixes, it becomes more and more stable (unless the fixes
> breaks something else of course)
> On the other hand, the dev branch keep alternating between removing
> bugs and adding new ones, all the time...
> Was the merging of dev to stable too complicated?
> Too many complains of missing features?
> Just curious...

Lack of man power, simply. Almost nobody seemed to care about
a separate stable branch and those who did, burned out pretty
fast.

Regards,
R.

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