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Re:An update on the state of the Reddit repositories by notamy on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:49PM (#15151395)
Perhaps something like

> Start making feature

> People hype it up

> Feature gets scrapped

> Angry mob

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Re:An update on the state of the Reddit repositories by derimagia on Friday September 01, 2017 @06:44PM (#15152916)
You can solve that by having feature branches and not promises repos to be up to date. I mean saying it trails even 6 months or more behind is a lot better than nothing.
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Re:An update on the state of the Reddit repositories by spicyj on Friday September 01, 2017 @07:08PM (#15153010)
They say they did that and it turned out to be a pain.
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Re:An update on the state of the Reddit repositories by msq on Saturday September 02, 2017 @06:30AM (#15155244)
Developing every busy application with multiple branches is a pain. Sounds like a cheap excuse.

As summarized on r/programming:

> Translation: We needed you guys back then. We don't now.

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