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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:50:24AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> The only way that this would really work is if there were dedicated
> sustaining engineers working on actively backporting code, testing it,
> committing it, etc.

I'm going to agree with Garrett here.  IMHO we've reached (or surpassed)
the limit of what is reasonable to ask volunteers to commit their spare
time to.  This is doubly true when we have more than one "stable" branch.

mcl