[GNC-dev] Request of keeping a 2.6 branch still alive (Re: branch-2.6)

[Christian Stimming]

Am Dienstag, 29. Mai 2018, 06:56:44 schrieb John Ralls:
> > On May 29, 2018, at 5:04 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > or at best on a branch that clearly shows it's not maintained by the
> > currently active gnucash community (like a cstim-2.6 branch or something
> > similar).
>
> Git != SVN. There is *no reason* for personal branches in a git repository.
> Everyone has their own repository and can easily publish it on Github or
> similar services. That’s where personal branches belong.

But why do we keep a "gnucash" repo at all and not only everyone's personal 
repository? Of course there is some sort of project belonging. My proposal is 
to still keep the 2.6 branch a little bit more alive, and one or two 
maintenance releases might be spun off from there. I'd be the one who does the 
housekeeping there, as discussed already.

Nevertheless thanks for the pointers about building on Ubuntu 14.04, I'll look 
into this for the time being. I'd still like to have the 2.6 branch slightly 
longer alive, though.

Regards,

Christian