Michael Snow wrote:
Stable versions simply based on using templates and so forth, as described at [[Wikipedia:Stable versions]], was effectively rejected. But a significant part of the objection to it was that this should be handled by the software instead. As to the software feature, the debate is only about the details of implementation at this point.
A lot of the objection stemmed from the fact that there were "Stable versions" to begin with, not so much the software. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the discussion so quickly - I know my objection is to the whole concept, not how it would be implemented.
-Jeff