Plans for 0.20.x maintenance releases or a maintenance branch?

[joseph-sch]

Hello Open3D maintainers, including @ssheorey — thank you for your work on Open3D.

Open3D 0.20.0 was released September 16. A substantial collection of proposed regression and security fixes is accumulating in PRs, but main remains at the v0.20.0 commit almost two months later.

For downstream production users, what is the intended way to consume fixes between major/minor releases? The interval from 0.19.0 to 0.20.0 was roughly 20 months, making the availability of fixes between releases particularly important.

Is a 0.20.x maintenance release or maintenance branch planned?

If maintainer bandwidth is the bottleneck, would the team welcome community help triaging and cherry-picking fixes for a conservative 0.20.1? Guidance on scope and validation expectations would help contributors focus their efforts.