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65c627d... by Chad Smith on 2019-09-06

Add stable branch README.md

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+# cloud-init stable-18.4: last python 2.6 support
+
+This branch (stable-18.4) is bug-fix only branch to support older distributions
+which require python 2.6.
+
+It is cut from 18.4 upstream tag and contains only minor python 2.6 fixes.
+
+The intent of this stable branch:
+* It is the last revision on cloud-init that fully supports python 2.6.
+* No ongoing upstream maintenance or feature work is planned for stable-18.4
+* stable-18.4 will continue to be hosted for community-driven python 2.6 support
+* For ongoing upstream cloud-init feature development, propose branches against 'master'