Clarify recommended download(s) for Twitter 7.x [#2205183]

Currently we have a stable release of 7.x-5.8, alpha of 7.x-6.0-alpha2, and dev releases of both 7.x-5.x and 7.x-6.x.

I'm not clear which is the current development branch, but it looks to me (https://drupal.org/node/112767/commits) like 7.x-5.x is the place to be for recent development and fixes.

When looking at #2055951: Interesting MySQL issue appears to cause randomish "twitter_views_handler_field_formatted_tweet->render()" errors this morning I went to forward-port the patch there to 7.x-6.x, and noticed that the last few hook_update_N weren't in that branch.

What are the current recommended versions for people to use? Juampy can you please share your knowledge of the two branches? Happy to update the module page to help people choose the right download - a bit concerned that a few hundred people might have moved across to 7.x-6.x in search for fixes and now be missing out on fixes that are in 7.x-5.x.

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juampynr commented 28 February 2014 at 22:17

Sure, thanks for pointing this out @xurizaemon.

I started 7.x-6.x to port part of the Twitter metadata to the Field API. Therfore, there is a twitter field and a twitter user field. That task took me quite a bit and got stuck with some issues some time ago. I am recently catching up on the Drupal 7 issue queues and most of the feedback and support is for 7.x-5.x. My plain is to lower the fires on 7.x-5.x first and create a new release, and then move the fixes to 7.x-6.x and write an upgrade path (main reason why I did not created a stable release).

Feel free to help me on this, I really need help on these two branches.

Thanks!