The current project state makes me more and more wonder where bup is heading to – and probably someone can enlighten me a little bit ;-)

The state as it seems to be:

bup 0.25-rc1 has been tagged in GIT more than a year ago (June 9 2011), and since then, no more "releases" have happened. And the main (?) development branch, https://github.com/apenwarr/bup/commits/master, seems to be quite dead (as well as the other branches located there): no relevant commits since november last year, only a few minor fixes and side products of other projects.

Now I know that there are other branches, most notably the "tmp/pending/meta" and "tmp/pu/master" branches: it seems current development takes place there (see GitWeb here: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/rlb/bup.git).

So what is the maser plan?

Avery, do yo plan to merge "tmp/pending/meta" back to your master branch?
And what's holding this back?
Should I use some other branch for testing and using bup nowadays?
Rob, are you planing to to some sort of release on your own?

Concerning bup, I'm more or less an "end-user", mostly because of lacking Python skills. And as such, I think it would be really good to have more "official" releases, so people would have a better clue which codebase to use …

The "tmp" and "pending" verbs in the GIT branches don't build a lot of trust.
And what's the meaning of "pu", BTW?

"Release early, release often"!