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Dear developers,<br>
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The last LTR is already more than 2 months old, in this time 138
commits have been pushed to release-2_8.<br>
It is great to see how actively this LTR is being maintained and
bugfixes being backported.<br>
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Unfortunately it seems impossible that we have an unintentional 2
weeks timeframe without anything being backported.<br>
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As with this amount of fixes ready to be shipped I think it would be
a pitty not doing it.<br>
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I think it would be great to branch a release-candidate-2_8_3 (no
binaries released, just to backport possible issues identified on
the release-2_8 binaries, related to pre-rc-commits). This way
people can happily continue to backport stuff.<br>
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Until this happens (and mainly for the situation where it does not
happen)<br>
<b>I would like to ask all committers to stop backporting to the
release-2_8 branch</b> as of tomorrow, July 14, 2015 (so you have
still today to push the urgent fixes you never got round to merge).<br>
This way we'll have a stable 2.8.3 in the beginning of August.<br>
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Thank you very much,<br>
Matthias<br>
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