Sounds good, but I think Octave should be released early and often.
That is the idea, but early and often was meant to be every six months
or so. We can keep making bug-patching releases of 3.6 for a while,
but we've got some pretty big changes already in the dev branch that
cannot be released right now in whatever state they're in. We simply
recently attempted some really big changes for this release cycle that
can't be broken up into smaller changes to be released piecemeal.
We could just release everything right now as it is, disable the GUI
and JIT compiling by default, and deal with the horrible user
backslash when they get an unstable GUI and have trouble compiling
Octave with JIT compiling, but I don't think this is the best idea.