backport 3.4 <- 3.5 after today's freeze, but prior to ssa merge?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Paul Schlie <schlie@comcast.net> writes:

| Sorry if it's a dumb notion, but as 3.5 appears to be as robust as 3.4
| presently is; and be in effectively a similar temporary stage of development
| pending it's merge with ssa; might it make sense to consider for the sake of
| consistency and conservation of resources, focusing efforts on stabilizing
| 3.5 for a few weeks, and then simply adopting it as the basis of 3.4 just
| prior to it's merge with ssa, which afterward will then truly form the basis
| of 3.5?

Is that different from having waited a few weeks before branching?
I do not believe it is different.  But then, at the time the branch
was created, that was for some reasons.  Going with your suggestion
would mean that something is wrong with the branching at the time.  I
cannot think of what.

-- Gaby