If you deferred releasing a 6.0 and instead immediately started working on 6.1, how much additional time would that add to getting 6.1 out? I'm not so much asking for an actual estimate, as I am whether it would be easier just to go directly to 6.1 if it fixes any issues that make building the release easier.
An .1 release is basically a .0 release + patches so I don't see any real difference. The hard part is reverse engineering the .0 release build environment and the .1 follows pretty quick from there. Occasionally a .x release breaks the environment and you get situations like 5.6 was.
Just my $0.02 form trolling the lists the last few years. :-)