@civodul Far from me the idea to complain: what an tireless job by volunteers. Kudos! And for sure, joining the party’s free. :-)
As we know, core-updates merges always provides collateral annoyances. And this workflow scales poorly. Nothing new, IMHO.
The project’s moving to another workflow using more branches. Good thing, IMHO.
How to merge (=test) them? Nothing new – a variant of “Incentives for review”.
@zimoun I agree! If I run into such problems when I am too busy to deal with them, I just roll back and wait for a while.
Inversely, when I do have the spare time to beta-tests, I'd be happy to play guinea-pig for important updates before they get merged. I just have no idea how to find out when such testing is needed.
@civodul