Hi all, I feel like we haven't done a great job of maintaining the previous 2.x releases. Seeing as how long 2.7.0 release has taken, I am sure we will spend more time stabilizing it, fixing issues etc.
I propose that we immediately follow up 2.7.0 with a 2.7.1 within 2-3 weeks. The focus obviously is to have blocker issues, bug-fixes and *no* features. Improvements are going to be slightly hard to reason about, but I propose limiting ourselves to very small improvements, if at all. The other area of concern with the previous releases had been compatibility. With help from Li Lu, I got jdiff reinstated in branch-2 (though patches are not yet in), and did a pass. In the unavoidable event that we find incompatibilities with 2.7.0, we can fix those in 2.7.1 and promote that to be the stable release. Thoughts? Thanks,+Vinod
