@luke-jr : I don't want to start an argument, but I still think we don't have enough testing resources to support 4 releases. I think we need to establish good QA for the main Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind release before we worry about next-test or so-called-"stable" releases.
That's a good discussion for the Testing Project team to have, though, once it gets up and running a little more.
I'd also like the Testing Project to not get pigeonholed into "QA testing for Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind", but to tackle cross-implementation compatibility (which I think is the next big, critical issue).