On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM Jon Haddad <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I’m opposed to teams solving their technical debt issues by pushing more > responsibility onto the project. > There are no teams here. There is just the project and contributors. Official backports are not a new or novel concept in open source projects. Whatever is being discussed here needs to be sustainably supported by the project in the longterm. We have volunteers who are willing to participate in backporting some features. The project needs to create a path forward for them to contribute. The concerns around sustainability, testing, support are valid and there are suggestions to mitigate those concerns. Assuming all goes well with the pilot, it will help grow the project. If it doesn't go well, it's not a big deal. This is not an irreversible decision – hence the suggestion for a limited time pilot. Given that there has been a lot of interest in this conversation, I suggest we organize a call to discuss this. It might help with questions that everybody has. We can then bring it back to the dev list. Thoughts? Dinesh
