On 2023-06-06 12:17:23 -0700 (-0700), Ghanshyam Mann wrote: [...]
This is true but I think this is the point where things are becoming difficult. Even we do not need to but we as community developers keep fixing the EM gate, at least I can tell from my QA experience for this. We should stop at some line but in reality, we end up doing it. [...]
Maybe my verbosity made it unclear, so just in case, what I was trying to say is that I consider Extended Maintenance to be a failed experiment and agree we should be talking about either reverting to the prior process from before EM was a thing or finding an alternative process that doesn't have so many of the obvious shortcomings of EM. People said if we just stopped EOL'ing branches so soon they would show up and help make use of those branches. They didn't, and so the expected benefits never materialized. -- Jeremy Stanley