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>>>>> Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>:

>>>>> "PA" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
PA> All other CVS based projects I know of either have HEAD as the front
PA> of the development branch, or are planning to do so in the future
PA> because having HEAD be the stable branch causes too many problems.

> I doubt many of them have absentee maintainers, a lack of management
> and not even the ability to make a release or update a web site.

Whether the manager is absent or not, doesn't really affect the way
CVS behaves.

Listen to Per.  In fact, just listen.

You should try that some time.