Hi James,
> I'd be happy to volunteer to help out for the more recent LTS branch,
> I just wont be able to find the time to help with a 4.7.x.
Great!
> I'm guessing Marc wouldn't want a whole load of random users
> having the ability to make a mess in HEAD but I believe github
> has the ability to restrict user access to particular branches
> so that might be one option to investigate?
It does, see https://help.github.com/articles/about-branch-restrictions/. However, I would not be opposed to work with pull requests from a forked repository that Marc would merge into the official LTS branch.
> In terms of management would it work to just have a couple
> of branches in the primary git repo?
One master branch and two LTS branches should do? We'll need to figure out how to build LTS releases from them though.
Cheers Matthias