quick question i guess targeted at the active darktable developers. Since some months I am building darktable from git and am happy with getting recent version by that means. I currently am building based on the 3.4.1 milestone.
Given that, I am currently trying to understand the rational for putting changes to the 3.4.1 or 3.6 milestone. Is it safe to say, that 3.4.1 is the current “stable” branch, that is more safe to use than the more far reaching 3.6 milestone?
Any insight or link to something explaining the structure would be appreciated?
Generally the aim is to have 3.4 branch as stable as possible with maybe some goodies thrown in for good measure so you don’t have to wait full year to get them.
master branch gets everything - fixes, goodies, breackages etc.
Just a short message to express my gratitude as regards all the code you developers have been commiting these past months.
Taking a look at github [1] is impressive to say the least…
Whenever I am a bit depressed about the state of other open source softwares it suffices to go to the darktable repository to behold all the work done so far
I have read that Covid has caused a big slow-down in many open source softwares development but for darktable it does seem like it is the opposite
With most commercial softwares all the big features about to be released with the 3.6 version would be likely spread all over the next years in order to force their customers to upgrade their licence (Capture one Pro 21 as a hint…).
We’re just a bit lazy with new releases…