Hi, We can fix things in release (vi hotfixs or directly) but the changes need to be tested, develop is the best place to do that as that's what the CI runs off. Last release we made changes in release and merge back to develop frequently. Even if we didn't do this at some point you need to merge any changes made in release back to develop, otherwise how do you work on the next release? The next release is branched from develop not the previous release branch.
We need a process that works with the constraints we have (ie Apache release process and our CI infrastructure) not some abstract ideal. Thanks, Justin