[$] The core of the -stable debate

Disagreements over which patches should find their way into stable updates
are not new — or uncommon. So when the topic came up again recently, there
was little reason to expect anything but more of the same. And, for the
most part, that is what ensued but, in this exchange, we were also able to
see the core issue that drives these discussions. There are, in the
end, two fundamentally different views of what the stable tree should be.