I think one of the problems is manpower.I think we all agree that SRU releases are good. Backporting bugs and such. The problem is manpower.
Maintainers are however free to update their distros with patches - instead of official SRU that would require creating new tarballs and a whole hell of update related issues.
Why doesn't someone ( maybe you :p) create a tarball of all the patches to be applied. Then email it to the different maintainers?
First, I sent the message to the wrong list. Aargh! :(
Second, the packagers are always the ones who release new packages. All we need is a decision, from Tim or as a team, that certain bug fixes are deemed sufficient to constitute a point release. After such a decision packagers will need to backport any related patches if they so desire. The problem is not manpower, just decisions. :)
Darrell