I think you are the best one to assess this at the moment since you are doing the hard work of back porting the changes.
Are you suggesting this, because it is a) less error-prone/easier or b) faster to do? For those that haven't followed the discussion: Stephan is back porting fixes for the streaming fault tolerance. There is consensus that the changes need to be in the bug fix release. So it's definitely not an option to skip it. In general I would like to keep our established process of back porting fixes to the release-X branch. But given the importance of the to be back ported fixes and the difficulty of back porting it, I think your suggestion is reasonable. We have to be very careful to not change behaviour between minor releases though. We also have to think about the following points if we fork off from master: - The startup script behaviour has changed - HA ZooKeeper setup needs to be removed
