Release branch maintenance

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:04:46AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Even if distro maintainers don't literally use the release branches, they
> are still the mechanism we have for public collaboration among distro
> maintainers to reach consensus on which fixes are good material for a
> stable branch.  This is a benefit to the whole community.

Sure, but if that is the only use case then there would be no point in
expecting active maintenance of the branches, i.e. actively looking
for patches to backport and doing regular maintenance releases.

Siddhesh