This is to come up with a comprehensive strategy for determining how we maintain multiple branches of our libraries.

Libraries this applies to:

• mongodb
• mongodb-core
• bson
• bson-ext
• mongodb-extjson

Things to keep in mind:

• master must to always have the latest changelog
• We want to be able to easily backpatch changes.
• We want to be able to develop next without having to keep all breaking changes in feature branches
• We want next to always stay up to date with any changes in master
• We want to be able to easily generate our documentation