No maintenance branches (FINERACT-1154)

[Michael Vorburger <mi...@vorburger.ch>]

Hello everyone,

The Fineract git repo used to have many git branches. This was a little bit
confusing, and allowed people to raise pull requests against other branches
than develop.

We have therefore decided to "close" all open branches and make them simple
git tags (which still allow one to easily see "how the code was" e.g. back
in 1.3.0 and earlier). This better reflects the reality that the community
really only works on the develop branch in git.

Maintaining "Long Term Support" (AKA "LTS") by "back-porting" fixes can be
one of many ways e.g. for System Integrators to offer additional value, and
is common in some open source communities.

Of course, any committer is welcome to offer their time to maintain past
releases and "backport" select fixes and step up as release managers e.g.
for 1.4.x, but as far as I know, the currently active committers focus on a
linear release (so a 1.5.0 next), only.

More background discussion about this can be found in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-1154.

Best,
M.
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Michael Vorburger
http://www.vorburger.ch