Hi Nathan,
This was discussed somewhat at last week's yt team meeting. It was decided that we would try to get back to doing the regular releases and that in between releases Matt would be responsible for keeping stable and dev synced on bug fixes. Matt, please speak up if I am in error on this.
As for what to do right now, I think it's a good idea to backport the bug fixes to stable and do a minor release. I think we definitely need this. However, rather than having one person take this on by themselves, I propose this be done in hangout with a few people present to share the burden. If anyone is up for doing this in the near future (say, this week), please respond. Or maybe this could be a job for the first PR review hangout? What do we think about that?
Finally, as you might have noticed, I have become a big fan of the idea of taking care of business in group settings via hangouts. I think it would be a good idea to try and decrease the large efforts made by a single person and the text-only communication and increase the face-to-face communication and working in groups. Just my two cents, that I realize I've been quite vocal on in the past hour.
Britton