Re: commits for possible 5.9.1

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 29/04/2026 16:15 BST Philippe Altherr > Actually, named references
> could also benefit from user feedback. There are several aspects where
> multiple design options are possible. User feedback could help us
> decide what should go into a final design for an official
> (non-experimental) launch. So maybe include them after all? One thing
> that may tip the balance to include them is if it's technically
> difficult to exclude them because it causes many merge conflicts.

Speaking from an overall co-ordination point of view, rather than
attempting to judge the detailed technical merit, I'm actually happy to
see this go in, as long as you and Bart are reasonably happy it's going
in the right direction and not destabilising anything else (I've
certainly not seen any sign of knock-on effects, although I haven't
specically looked).  If it does, that would mean we can go straight to a
full release, which saves a lot of legwork.

We would obviously need to label this as experimental for the first
release, and ideally provide a list of expected or even suspected
changes, but if we do that in my opinion we are covered.

cheers
pws