Oxygen Thief

(11:48:05) James: I think you've missed the point

(11:48:39) Oxygenik: I think you don't agree that urgent fixes should happen first

(11:49:01) Oxygenik: because once you agree with that then it follows that release-tag should be fixed first

(11:49:02) Sarah: I think we've lost DNS or something, general net access here just turned iffy

(11:52:29) James: I'm trying to say that rel -> trunk leaves us room to forget. We *know* it's an important step, but because we can do it at our leisure, we may forget. We don't *want* to forget, but circumstances overtake us sometimes. trunk -> rel prevents that, because the pressure is never off until rel is fixed and released. The port process is *usually* trivially, so it doesn't take up a significant amount of extra time. rel->trunk might be considered better because the fix gets out there slightly faster, but it's no good if the fixer forgets to merge it back to trunk, we release trunk a while later, and exactly the same bug turns up.

(11:53:07) Oxygenik: YOU'RE WRONG AND YOU'RE A GROTESQUELY UGLY FREAK