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<a href="https://gitlab.com/nmav">Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos</a>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="markdown">In the GnuTLS project there are at most two ongoing releases, one marked as</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC4" class="line" lang="markdown">'stable' and one marked as 'next'. The former is always present and</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC5" class="line" lang="markdown">supported, while the latter is introduced on the discretion of the</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC6" class="line" lang="markdown">development team.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC8" class="line" lang="markdown">For both release branches all the rules in <span class="p">[</span><span class="nv" style="color: #008080;">CONTRIBUTING.md</span><span class="p">](</span><span class="sx" style="color: #d14;">CONTRIBUTING.md</span><span class="p">)</span></span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC9" class="line" lang="markdown">apply, but in principle the 'stable' release is more conservative in new features,</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC10" class="line" lang="markdown">while the 'next' branch allows for mild behavioral changes. The 'stable' branch</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC11" class="line" lang="markdown">always provides API and ABI compatibility, while the 'next' branch may on exceptional</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC12" class="line" lang="markdown">cases change the API.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC15" class="line" lang="markdown">|Branch|Version|Release interval|</span>
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<p dir="auto">I haven't thought about the cadence nor when could that release be. At the moment we have the milestone without any dates and potential issues to address: <a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/milestones/20" data-original="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/milestones/20" data-link="false" data-link-reference="true" data-project="179611" data-milestone="785949" data-reference-type="milestone" data-container="body" data-placement="bottom" title="" class="gfm gfm-milestone has-tooltip">%Release of GnuTLS 3.7.0</a></p>
<p dir="auto">There is no "process" for starting a next branch, but would it make sense that anyone can propose forking and starting the next branch, and during that proposal we discuss cadence and what gets in from the disruptive changes?</p>
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