stable1 backporting process

All, experimenting a bit here. As you build PR for master, please do NOT create a new PR for stable1. Indicate if the commit qualifies for stable1 and if we all agree it should be backported, you can or we will cherry-pick the fix in stable1-proposed branched. there is a PR open to merge stable1-proposed that will keep running CI on each cherry-pick backport for now, and we feel the time is ready to cut 1.1, we will just merge that PR at once. Cheers Fabio