The PMC doesn't manage a team: we can't ask people to work on what we think is important. The persons that contribute code to the project (and backport features) are persons like you and me, and the PMC doesn't have the authority or will to assign tasks to them. In fact, I doubt I could ask you to test and backport to 12.04 all the 59 features that the have been committed yesterday :-)
Regards, Jacopo On Sep 21, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > No one has time to fix all of the bugs by themselves but by managing the > team, it should be possible to get all of the required work done. > > The PMC needs to develop a consensus about how bugs are handled in the > official releases and then make lists of things that need doing. > If a bug is found and added to he JIRA, determining which releases it applies > to should be part of the analysis. > > If a patch is developed it should be possible to apply it to each release at > the same time. > > > Ron > > > On 20/09/2014 12:47 PM, Adrian Crum wrote: >> I don't have time to maintain 4 code bases (trunk + 3 branches). I will fix >> things in the trunk, and I will backport those fixes to the most recent >> branch. I have no interest in older branches. If someone else is using them, >> then they can create a patch for them. So, I have no issues with releasing >> old branches with missing fixes - because if anyone really cared about them >> they would work harder to maintain them. >> >> Adrian Crum >> Sandglass Software >> www.sandglass-software.com >> >> On 9/20/2014 5:29 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: >>> It seems a bit weird to me to officially release code with bugs when we >>> have already bug fixes in trunk >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> Le 20/09/2014 17:17, Adrian Crum a écrit : >>>> From my perspective, anyone wanting to use older versions can backport >>>> the changes themselves - either locally, or in the release branches by >>>> providing a patch. >>>> >>>> Adrian Crum >>>> Sandglass Software >>>> www.sandglass-software.com >>>> >>>> On 9/20/2014 4:07 PM, Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote: >>>>> Hello Jacques, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your kind words. We started this event considering the fact >>>>> to provide fixes for trunk and latest release branch which is 13.07. It >>>>> will be of great help if someone from community could pick and back port >>>>> the required changes to Release Branch 12.04. In future if we get time >>>>> we will also be taking care of back porting to R12.04. >>>>> >>>>> We didn't back port changes in R11.04 just because it is very old branch >>>>> and very soon will not be maintained. Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Kind Regards >>>>> Ashish Vijaywargiya >>>>> HotWax Media - est. 1997 >>>>> ApacheCon US 2014 Silver Sponsor >>>>> http://na.apachecon.com/sponsor/our-sponsors >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday 20 September 2014 05:01 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Le 20/09/2014 13:28, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It's great to see a second Bug Crush effort! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have though a question, I see that you (HotWax Media team) only >>>>>>> backport bug fixes to the R13 branch. >>>>>>> I guess it's intended, so why? >>>>>> I ask this because I already found myself trying to fix issues in R12 >>>>>> and R11 branches (I know will be soon no longer maintained R11 ) and >>>>>> found they were already backported in R13 >>>>>>> Jacques >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 >
