We are going to end up releasing M1 with a *lot* of broken tests, I have not seen anyone volunteer to fix or look at any yet. see: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ReleasePlans#HFixfailingtests Going forward to M2 we are going to need a major stability drive and I think this is a good time to introduce the "stable branch" as per the branching strategy laid out here: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ #1. Bug fixes are committed against the stable branch and forward ported to the development branch. #2. New features are committed against the development branch and then merged back to the stable branch only after we are assured they have not broken any tests or introduced bugs. Here's my +1 Caleb