> Folding in fixes for common issues which were found in newer releases sometimes involved more than just cherrypicking the fix into a patch release for an olde

> Folding in fixes for common issues which were found in newer releases sometimes involved more than just cherrypicking the fix into a patch release for an older version. Honestly? This isn't an a problem of accidental complexity that some combination of tooling and process can fix for you. I don't think that anyone has kept the cost as low as log(N_releases). Even that would be too high for most teams.