What’s best for a large operation like Fedora may be unworkable for a small one that’s stretched…Branching schemes have been discussed in public and in private, but did not attract much interest.
For 2.0.5.1, the normal plan of GitHub master, Canary releases, an Experimental, and a Beta held. Whether or not it can hold after Duplicati hits Stable channel is surely one question for discussion.
There are historically only rare occasions when patch releases go out. It can be done, but it’s work. There is a release manager position open for somebody who would enjoy getting into handling this.