Should D1 only bugs be closed?

[Peter Alexander]

On Saturday, 9 February 2013 at 21:11:36 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> If people who want or have to stick with D1 make pull requests
> for bugs they fixed that's good. Just keep them open I'd say
> unless they require a new feature to be implemented.

I thought the point of discontinuing support was so that Walter 
didn't have to waste time pulling things into the D1 branch and 
making releases? If he's not going to be doing that then there's 
no point people making pull requests, and no point having the 
bugs in the database.

That being said, as Andrej has highlighted above, it appears that 
D1 in fact has not been discontinued at all. There's still daily 
activity on that branch, so I'm wondering now what's actually 
going on?