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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