On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Marcus Agehall (nu med K-märkt fastighet och ny elcentral) @ Pike (-) developers forum 10353@lyskom.lysator.liu.se wrote:

My personal stance is that as long as you don't break existing APIs/features, backporting new ones is not a problem. Others may disagree with this though.

That's not the whole truth. The general answer to "can I add to stable" is no. It can be added as an exception if discussed and the following is met:

- The addition must be obviously safe.

- It should add something that is _needed_ today. Not something that might be useful in some theoretical situation or large code cleanup.

- It's checked in to the development branch before stable.

Stable is a contract that should say to anyone using it that upgrades between minors are safe. Part of trying to do a release every month (in practise I predict around six successful release per year) is acctually to get stricter on this but also to make feature releases once per year.

(Apparently the KOM-export script is broken again, so copy-pasting this to email. Will probably show up again whenever KOM-export gets fixed.)

Regards,