Re: Branching off 2.2

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:54 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> Op wo, 29-12-2004 te 12:53 -0500, schreef Hubert Figuiere:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 18:03 +0100, J.M. Maurer wrote:
> > > > So you declare willing to be repsonsible off backporting everything ?
> > > > I'm sorry, but I have done enough backporting do declare it to be a PITA
> > > > process, not including time consuming.
> > >
> > > ... Actually, I find it quite relaxing.. you don't have to think out new
> > > stuff, just be a drone and make things fit. I usually do it when I'm
> > > bored :-)
> >
> > But still 2 problem:
> >
> > -keep track of all the commits
>
> If people just say "backport" or "forward" port in their commit mails,
> i'll track it automatically..
>

Sure, and even if they don't, the average time it takes to read (or at
least flag for investigation) a commit message is about 5 seconds, so
it's unlikely that a commit could really be lost under all the eyes on
the lookout for it (-:

> Fixing a bug in STABLE does not always mean that it can be forwardported
> without issues. Same holds for HEAD to STABLE. So neither can be done
> 'automatically' as far as I can see. Furthermore, we've had fixes in
> 2.0.x that i didn't want to end up in 2.1.x, as the fix was done there
> in a different way, or was not needed.

Exactly.

-MG
Received on Wed Dec 29 21:23:51 2004