[tldistro] [tlbuild] patches for TeX Live

[Karl Berry]

[Reducing to tldistro.]

    My main question was if there is enough manpower/if it makes sense for
    me to send patches there

Not unless it helps the distros.

    (On top of that, problems in trunk are discovered within half a day by
    many users using packages from trunk. How would problems in branch2011
    be discovered?)

They wouldn't.  The purpose of branch2011 is not to be used by
end-users, but to provide patches for critical post-release problems,
exactly for the sake of the distros.

Thus, if the distros don't use it, which I don't think they do, there's
no use wasting time committing anything there.  My (vague) understanding
is that it is more convenient for the distros to download the release
tarballs and apply their own fixes, instead of worrying about svn
branches.

That is, the only previous time branch20YY was used was in 2006 or so
when Jonathan Kew wanted a place to put some post-release xetex fixes.

karl