You are right, the end is in sight for 1072 to be committed to trunk.
It won't be documented for end-users or committed to 0.7 branch until
we fix the drawbacks elaborated on the ticket, because that fixing
won't be backwards-compatible. And at that point we'll probably be
close to the next major
Can we get an update? After reading through the comments on 1072, it looks
like this is getting close to finished, but it's hard for someone not knee-deep
in the project to tell. I'm primarily interested in the timeline you foresee
for getting the increment support into trunk for 0.7, and some