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On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 10:25 +0800, Li Ma wrote:
> Here's a situation that I discovered when I reviewed some patches in
> the upstream. Currently, for most of the projects, only master branch
> is well looked after. Even for those stable branches, backport work is
> not that sufficient.

This message made me scroll the list of people maintaining the stable
branch: https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/120,members The
names there seem all to have a lot of other jobs to attend too and I
suspect they may be overloaded already. So even if it looks like there
are lots of people capable of approving patches with +2+w votes, there
may not be enough people doing the heavy lifting to provide patches and
backports to stable branch. 

If stable and backports are a priority, I think it would be good to put
people to work on those tasks and not expect that someone else will do
it.

On 'Joining the team' [1] the team says:

        If you'd like to join the team, you can start by simply [+-]1ing
        stable branch reviews. It's best if you can add some brief
        thoughts to your review on why you think the fix is suitable for
        stable so that we know how you're applying the policy. 

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StableBranch

/stef