I was curious if the contrib module maintainers and/or core maintainers have been monitoring the Tag1 Drupal 7 Extended Support updates in order to make relevant changes to Backdrop as well?
I was curious if the contrib module maintainers and/or core maintainers have been monitoring the Tag1 Drupal 7 Extended Support updates in order to make relevant changes to Backdrop as well?
Short answer: yes.
We are monitoring it for core. And if there are relevant contrib updates we contact the contrib maintainer.
Some of the updates in that feed actually originate from Backdrop :).