Hi developers,
I am releasing 5.0.0-alpha, which means we now have QA_5_0. Please note these branches and procedures when creating pull requests.
QA_4_9: For bug fixes to 4.9.x, which soon will enter LTS status (critical bugfixes only) QA_5_0: For bugfix work that will become part of 5.0.0. This branch should be feature frozen at this point, if you require an exception to this please discuss it with the development team master: Standard ongoing development branch including new features.
When creating a bugfix, please target the oldest appropriate branch (QA_4_9 or QA_5_0). The development team member who merges a change should also periodically merge QA_4_9 into QA_5_0 and from QA_5_0 into master, to maintain a somewhat orderly commit history.
If anyone has questions, please ask here or find me on Gitter.
Best wishes, Isaac