[vtk-developers] ready to branch for 8.0.0?

[Sean McBride]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:24:22 -0400, Cory Quammen said:

>VTK 8.0.0 seems like a good target for some of the bigger API change
>merge requests that have been put off for a while Examples include:
>
>https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/1455
>https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/917
>
>If we are aspiring toward using semantic versioning [1], now would be
>the time to make such API changes. And document them nicely as well,
>of course.

Even though I authored those MRs, it seems to me too late to merge them since the 8.0 branch is imminent.  Maybe after 8.0 is branched, they could be merged to master?  Will an eventual 8.0.1 or 8.1 come from master or the 8.0 branch?  It is indeed not clear when such breaking changes can actually get merged...

Cheers,

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