[development] Is DRUPAL-5 branch necessary for module?

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:22 -0800, Derek Wright wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Derek Wright wrote:
> 
> > people who don't really understand or have real experience with  
> > branch management (98% of the people reading this message, it seems)
> 
> apologies for being overly pessimistic with this statement.  after i  
> sent this, i read it again, and i realize now i'm being a little  
> harsh.  i didn't mean to insult anyone's intelligence or abilities.
> 
> i often forget that many people actually seem to have read the docs,  
> understand all this stuff just fine, and are getting along splendidly  
> with sane releases of their contributions.  it's really a minority of  
> the people who ask for help (often in the least appropriate places)  
> and do crazy things which i'm then asked to fix, which are the ones  
> that are most visible in my mind.
> 
> a number of folks have thanked me for the release system, reassured  
> me that the docs are totally clear (at least to them), etc.  my  
> thanks go out to all of you people, and to the (probably large)  
> fraction of the drupal development community that read the docs, are  
> doing great, and never talked to me about it at all for anything. ;)
> 
> cheers,
> -derek

/me waves the glowing red svn brand in dww's general direction :)