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1. Minimal proposal

2. Rationale

Currently, each development cycle of Clutter will result in two things happening every six months:

The new stable release will see at least two more point releases, to fit into the GNOME development cycle. The old stable release, instead, is discontinued, and it is not updated any more.

The current releasing process favours rapid development cycles, with new API added (and deprecated) with a fairly short turnover. Once a stable release becomes old-stable, though, it is pretty much abandoned, and no bug fixes are backported or applied, except by distributions.

Some distributions provide long term support releases which keep shipping the same version of the Clutter package - whichever stable version happens to be released at the time. This means that all bug fixes end up either inside distribution packages or unreleased in Git.

3. Implementation

4. Issues/Discussion


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