[Enhancement] Stable and Early Access branches.

[fourofspades]

As an end user, there is never really a stable version of this application, the development speed is great, but it's hard to stick on a version, as each version comes with it's new features, refactoring and new bugs.

It would be great if the release pace could be slowed, keeping all the really new stuff going into a early access branch first, and then a full rollout when everything is stable. This would probably need a change to the app update logic.

I believe the userbase of Sourcegit is big enough to warrant the overhead of doing this, and nobody wants another bug ridden, never stable, disaster like SourceTree....

[goran-w]

IMHO the release pace is great, so the master and develop branches should not be changed.

There could (in theory) be a stable branch, where releases are tagged as such and done (much) more seldomly, and which only receives cherry-picks of the most important bug-fixes. But that would be quite burdensome to maintain, compared to the current (very "agile" and very "linear history") release-workflow. Also it would very quickly fall behind, feature-wise.

I would be sad to see this project become a slow burn, where improvements are made very slowly. I think the maintainer is doing a great job of keeping things rather stable, despite many improvements being made - I don't experience the quality being degraded over time, and we should ALL help keeping it great by contributing issues and/or PRs...

Also, we always have the choice of NOT updating to the latest release, and if there's a new feature / fix that's important to us then we could install the new version separately and try it out before deciding to use it as OUR new "stable base" version of choice.

[fourofspades]

The problem is, a new version to get a fix will come with new problems of it's own. Have a look at the release history to gauge what I am talking about. Trying to nail own a release that doesn't have bugs is near impossible.

Releases focused JUST on squashing bugs would be nice...