CONTRIBUTING.md: outdated?

janekmi commented 3 years ago

Why I suppose CONSTRIBUTING.md is outdated:

I have seen a few pull requests aiming at the master branch and
these pull requests are merged
the testing branch seems to follow the latest release branch (master_2_0 branch). What if the contribution aims for a different release?

StevenPontsler commented 3 years ago

The testing branch is not currently being used.

If one wants the latest that is thought to be stable go with the master branch. If one wants to stay with 1.00.00.xxxx versions then stick with branch master_1_0 -- there is very little activity on this branch but fixes maybe applied. If one wants the with 2.00.00.xxxx versions then stick with branch master_2_0 -- which is likely the same master right now If one wants the bleeding edge then Development is the branch for you.

The Development branch could be thought of as the testing branch but for 3.00.00.xxxx. When I tried to reuse the testing branch there was so many changes/conflicts that Git could not figure out so to get something out there I just went with a new branch.

janekmi commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the explenation.

Please consider deleting the testing branch. Having too many branches is confusing for contributors.

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