[Mesa-dev] so the development model is working?

[Ian Romanick]

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Dave Airlie wrote:

> Also committing any fixes
> directly to a stable branch is something I've never really heard of as
> a standard. I would assume the expectation is that nobody willing
> introduces regressions, but lots of people accidentally do, and it
> would be better to find those in master first not in the stable branch
> when a distro has already shipped it.

This has been the core of my argument against this model since the
beginning.  One person testing a patch on one configuration does not
make it a suitable candidate for a stable branch.
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