Hi Apache developers, I put together a simple wiki page outlining the strategy for using feature branches which I think will help us keep our trunk branch stable as we move forward with new development: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Git+Feature+Branches
Please have a look and feel free to provide feedback or edit it. The goal was to keep it simple and introduce committers to the feature branch workflow. We should all adopt this practice for both new features as well as non-feature changes which could potentially destabilize trunk.