On Aug 13, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Michael Manfre <mman...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If there is interest in the community to backport security fixes to no longer 
> supported versions of Django, what is the likelihood that a core dev would 
> merge them in to the appropriate stable branch? This would not include 
> packaging an official release, but would provide a way for those stuck on 
> older versions a better way to help others who are similarly stuck. I realize 
> that it does require time to verify pull requests and "too much effort" is a 
> completely valid answer. 

Lack of CI is probably going to be one of the biggest blockers. Without CI it's 
up to the merging developers to run the tests on all the combinations of stuff 
we support which isn't the easiest or the quickest thing to setup and maintain.

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