I am glad to see this getting another look, as I've advocated for this in the past.

A cost to be considered is the change in workflow for those whom are responsible for merging bug-fixes from the earliest branch up through all of the still-supported releases and eventually on to trunk.

While this cost of this change seems small to me, I'm not the one who does this work; let's make sure that the maintainers who do this work are well-supported as changes are made.

Cheers,
 -Eric



On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 at 22:23, Vicențiu Ciorbaru via developers <developers@lists.mariadb.org> wrote:
I echo Nikita's position here. With our new model, a change that happened once every year now must happen once every quarter.

It would also map to our rolling release model too I believe. 

This was discussed in the past and we decided against it then, but now times have changed where I believe it warrants a second look. 

Vicențiu 

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024, 16:58 Nikita Malyavin via developers, <developers@lists.mariadb.org> wrote:
Hello Otto,

I think it's a good idea, which improves the quality of life.

The rebases will still have to take place, but at least the contributors won't have to update the branch names in the PR!

Regards,
Nikita

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 at 05:55, Otto Kekäläinen via developers <developers@lists.mariadb.org> wrote:
Hi!

Has the core developers had discussions about using branch name 'main'
for development instead of switching to a new branch every 3 months?

If all new features and other additions would always target the branch
'main' it would lower the barrier of entry for new contributors, and
decrease the number of unnecessary rebases done by contributors.

If the permanent development target was 'main', you would need to
create new 11.x branches only at "freeze" when a new major version
branch is cut for release.

MariaDB is currently the only open source project I know that does
*not* have a main/master/trunk branch and instead does these constant
new branch names. I imagine this is not only annoying for
contributors, but also the core developers who waste time asking
contributors to rebase PRs every 3 months (see
https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/2556 and
https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/2671 as examples).

- Otto
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