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NEVER maintain multiple release branches as a maintainer, period.

Given enough PRs, nobody, not even god-tier maintainers, is able to keep track of all commits and the whole context/story behind it.

Remember that people ALWAYS PR against your master and nobody even cares about your whatever-named-next-branch buried deep inside your feature branches.

Please make it easy for others if you want actual contributions.

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    I've done multiple release versions, but this was managed with compile time flags.

    I suppose this makes some sense when you've got head/stable branches, but in that case it'd be someone's responsibility to port bug fixes to stable, surely.
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