On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> wrote:

- Cull and probably remove the 7.8.4 milestone.
- Simply not enough time to address almost any of the tickets
in any reasonable timeframe before 7.10.1, while also shipping them.
- Only one, probably workarouadble, not game-changing
bug (#9303) marked for 7.8.4.
- No particular pressure on any outstanding bugs to release immediately.
- ANY release would be extremely unlikely, but if so, only
backed by the most critical of bugs.
- We will move everything in 7.8.4 milestone to 7.10.1 milestone.
- To accurately catalogue what was fixed.
- To eliminate confusion.

#8960 looks rather serious and potentially makes all of 7.8 a no-go for some users. I'm worried that we're (in general) pushing too many bug fixes towards future major versions. Since major versions tend to add new bugs, we risk getting into a situation where no major release is really solid.