Subject: Re: [bug#78332] [PATCH 1/1] 005-regular-releases: Initial draft of GCD005 'Regular and efficient releases'.

From: Steve George <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 15:01:05 +0100

On  9 May, Z572 wrote:
> Steve George <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > +
> > +### 8. Breaking changes to staging
> > +To avoid a period of time where teams can't commit breaking changes, these are
> > +sent to a new 'staging' branch, rather than directly to master.  The master
> 
> I think we may need to change the name. We used the name staging before
> switching to the team-based process. If we reuse this name, it may cause
> confusion for later users when searching for information.
> 

No problem, is there something you would favour?

If not, what about `next-master` to indicate that it's the next master? If we think that's too generic we could give it a time-based date `202509-next-master` - meaning it will be merged back in during September 2025.