Stabilizing 2.4.0

[Derek Atkins]

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

>> Should we declare "feature freeze" at this point, and perhaps make a 2.4
>>  branch?
>
> A 2.4 branch should not yet be made, but rather closely around the
> actual 2.4.0 release date. Even though there is also experimental work
> going on, there is still a lot of bugfixing everywhere. If we branched
> now, we would have a heck of a lot of merging / cherry-picking back
> and forth between branches. I definitely prefer a 2.4 branch only very
> close before 2.4.0 date - something like 2-3 weeks before that date.

Seconded -- let's not branch 2.4 unless after 2.4.0 is released.  If we
want we can make the 2.4.0 tag be the 'base' of the 2.4.0 branch too.

For 2.2 we didn't actually create the 2.2 branch until about 2.2.2.

> Regards,
>
> Christian

-derek

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