Why is stable-v2 ahead of master branch?

[Innixma]

"This branch is 27 commits ahead, 13 commits behind master."

stable-v2 includes nice improvements like #433

Yet this is not present in master branch. Is there a plan to have master branch be up to date? Ideally I'd assume that master branch would always be ahead or equal to any stable branch.

[PGijsbers]

Patches in stable-v2 will be merged into master. stable-v2 is supposed to be frozen for consistency in the experiments we ran, but we required certain fixes to run our experiments.

[PGijsbers]

@sebhrusen I have no strong opinion on how to apply those patches back into master, but I've got a feeling you do :) would you be willing to take care of this?

[sebhrusen]

I started to work on #416 a few weeks ago to fix the versioning workflow which currently prevents us from merging changes in stable branches back to master automatically.
I'll try to work back on this soon.

[sebhrusen]

will be solved by #416