[development] Re: 18 critical bugs left

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Karthik wrote:

>>Just because bugs are closed in the 4.7 tree doesn't mean they're closed
>>in the 4.6 tree, and 4.6 still needs to be supported, until 4.8 is
>>released.
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>As far as I am aware, all non-security/standards related issues for
>the 4.6/4.5 branch can be closed if they have been fixed in HEAD.
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>

That is our current policy, indeed. For 4.7 we will maintain the branch 
to more extend, ie I will apply patches for non-critical bugs (but no 
new features).

Cheers,
    Gerhard