I\'ve been dealing with the problem of scaling CI at my company and at the same time trying to figure out which approach to take when it comes to CI and multiple branches. T
I would choose dev+stable branches. And if you still want custom branches and afraid of the load, then why not move these custom ones to the cloud and let developers manage it themselves, e.g. http://cloudbees.com/dev.cb This is the company where Kohsuke is now. There is an Eclipse Tooling also, so if you are on Eclipse, you will have it tightly integrated right into dev env.