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authorDrew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>2016-09-05 12:11:39 -0400
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## Release Cycle
-There are three stages of a sway release. Say the current stable version is
-0.7. The master branch of sway is working towards becoming the 0.8 release. 0.8
-will go through each of these three stages:
+The master branch of sway is always working towards becoming the next release.
+That release will go through each of these three stages:
-**In development**: during this time 0.8 lives in the master branch and is
-considered unstable. All pull requests merged during this time will land in sway
-0.8.
+**In development**: during this time the release lives in the master branch and
+is considered unstable. All pull requests merged during this time will land in
+this version. Only developers are encouraged to run this version.
**Release candidate**: at some point (usually when development is fairly quiet),
-@SirCmpwn will announce an upcoming release candidate (often 2 weeks in
+SirCmpwn will announce an upcoming release candidate (often 2 weeks in
advance). When the two weeks are up, a branch is cut (i.e. 0.8-rc1) and from
that point only bugfix pull requests land in this branch. Each morning, if
-bugfixes landed in 0.8 during the previous day, a new RC is cut. During the RC
-phase, more adventurous users are encouraged to upgrade and start looking for
-and reporting bugs (especially in new features).
+bugfixes landed during the previous day, a new RC is cut. During the RC phase,
+more adventurous users are encouraged to upgrade and start looking for and
+reporting bugs (especially in new features).
-**Stable release**: when no substantial changes are merged into an RC for 1
-week, it's released as a new stable version of Sway. At this point, all users
+**Stable release**: when no substantial changes are merged into an RC for one
+week, it's released as a new stable version of sway. At this point, all users
are encouraged to upgrade.
## Pull Requests