Comment 10 for bug 1172215

So, this isn't just a philosophical issue. Accepting something last-minute that people expect to support (rather than just dump in universe and forget) is actually a fair bit of potential future work.

We make a commitment that SRUs not regress, offer sane upgrade paths, etc. Dumping something in to the release pocket late that is "from an end-user perspective its not 100% feature complete" implies that your intent is to SRU it to completion later, which will be very hard to both review and upgrade safely.

We've offered a clear alternative, which is to upload it to s-series, backport to the backports pocket (which, contrary to popular belief, *is* enabled by default), and let people test it as a work in progress. That, to me, is FAR preferable to shipping something in the release pocket that's known-broken.