A question: Would it be easier for all this if we moved to being Github canon?
> On Mar 4, 2022, at 5:08 AM, Stefan Eissing <ste...@eissing.org> wrote: > > We should improve our backport procedure and provide guidance on how to use > it after the next release. > > Post-mortem dbm backport: > - the patch pointed to the in 2.4.x/STATUS was incomplete, lacking APLOGNO() > - the incomplete patch was voted on and accepted, as local tests do not have > the full CI checks > - Jim applied the voted on backport patch > - CI failed > No one did anything really wrong. We did just not apply the CI tools > available until the damage was done. > > As noted in the related thread, backport proposal should really be PRs on > github. Those are checked by > our CI and a PR can easily be improved by adding submits to the branch it is > based on. In addition, we > get the github UI for review and comments. Should be a win for all. > > Kind Regards, > Stefan > >
