[Bug 27630] New: Start a 5.4 stable branch

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27630

           Summary: Start a 5.4 stable branch
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: git master
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/smcv/telepathy-miss
                    ion-control-smcv.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/telepathy
                    -mission-control-5.4
        OS/Version: All
            Status: ASSIGNED
          Keywords: patch
          Severity: normal
          Priority: high
         Component: mission-control
        AssignedTo: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
        ReportedBy: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
                CC: sjoerd at luon.net


Mission Control git master (allegedly going to be 5.3) has quite a lot of
changes, and in practice distributions all use 5.3.2.

I suggest we branch at 5.3.2, cherry-pick only bugfixes, and call the result
5.4.0; meanwhile, when git master gets released (which I think should be sooner
rather than later), we should call it 5.5.

It might be worth making an exception to the bugfix-only thing to get Bug
#27309 (Observer.Recover) added in 5.4.0, since it's a smallish change and not
very controversial.

For as long as we can (i.e. until they diverge too far to make this practical),
we should make all future bugfixes against the telepathy-mission-control-5.4
branch and keep merging it into master, like the way telepathy-glib works.

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