a healthy debate has sprung up between kjartan and myself on what the "main" branches compatible with a given version of core (e.g. the "DRUPAL-5" branches) should mean in the new release system. after a few email exchanges and a few debates on IRC, it seems like dries, webchick, and a few others are fairly happy with the current implementation. however, dries suggested i write up the debate and send it to the devel list for input... request for comments: http://drupal.org/node/92452 thanks, -derek (dww) p.s. this is one of the *last* things standing in the way of deploying the new system. all the major reviews are now done, and i've only got a few hours of touch-up work to do. once this debate is resolved and i finish off these minor updates, documentation is the only thing standing between us and the happy new world of versioned releases. ;) therefore, please speak-up soon if you care about this debate, since the window for discussion will be relatively short. thanks.