Badr Albusaidi is the foreign minister of Oman. He mediated the most recent nuclear talks between America and Iran, which were twice on the verge of a deal before military strikes intervened. He has proposed linking bilateral American-Iranian negotiations to a wider regional process, designed to achieve a framework for transparency on nuclear energy in the Gulf Co-operation Council region.
I'm personally quite happy with one stable release every two years, and am of the opinion that trying to release more will mean we'll have to rename the distro from "stable" to "wobbly".