I think there's allot of merit to Lars's suggestions and personally think the final approach to be the most sensible, allowing users to stick to a stable supported version without being forced to upgrade every 6 months in our case, to a .0 release.

I do have a couple of questions however, and these are the reasons I believe the original bug requesting such a change was changed to 'RESOLVED - WONTFIX'.

Lars, could you comment on upgrade paths between versions if we moved to having koha, koha-3.12 and koha-3.14 versions per pocket? (i.e., how does one seamlessly switch from koha-3.12 to koha3.14 when they chose to do so.. I'm sure this has all been solved before, but I'm unaware how), and importantly how to you 'end of life' a version once say koha-3.10 is unsupported, is there a method to notify a user to switch?

Your input on those tow points would be most appreciated.