Proposal: 1.8 release and development process changes

[Keith Packard]

Excerpts from Dave Airlie's message of Sun Sep 27 15:37:14 -0700 2009:

> make a 1.6-nominate branch, let everyone cherrypick onto it, the 1.6
> maintainers reviews this branch, picks what they want off it and
> *reverts* with explanations the ones they don't.

Yeah, that seems pretty nifty. One issue is that non-committers can't
nominate patches as easily. I don't have a good suggestion here other
than adding those to either the wiki or bugzilla. I found the wiki
easier to deal with than bugzilla, although I should have made a spot
to put comments about patches which were not included.
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keith.packard at intel.com