HBASE-10499 is the latest example where there's a problem reported against 0.98 but the fix only goes in to 1.0 (or maybe even only 1.1). Certainly fixing a problem in more than one branch is burdensome and I don't mind pitching in for 0.98 backports, but we can't have problems reported against 0.98 remain unaddressed save for my vigilance looking at branch-1 commit history for fixes people are leaving out. In effect this is a premature declaration that 1.0 is our stable release. Hopefully that happens very soon but that is not the case yet.
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