Meeting agreed on moving Collada I/O to the legacy ‘status’ (see the announcement for details).
Meeting did not agree on proposal to have an official policy regarding support of (very) old Blendfiles. For the time being, versioning code for old features/data can be removed when it becomes too problematic to maintain, on a case-by-case basis.
The improved Autosmooth behavior fix will likely go into the next 4.2 LTS release. It needs more time to be tested and validated by the artists, and making a corrective 4.1.2 release is not easily doable in the coming weeks.
Meeting agreed to empower the release team to be more conservative with what is backported to LTS corrective releases. The goal is to:
Reduce the overhead of such releases on the dev and release teams.
Reduce the risk of breaking workflows or introducing new issues with ‘nice to have’ non-critical backported fixes.