On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:40:39PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Maybe some QA period before the release might help, but who would
> care?  (Especially under the situation where everybody has own x.y
> stable tree?)

Hopefully people tracking the upstream stable trees would be throwing
any pre-release stuff into their QA processes before it was officially
released upstream, though I'd not count on it.