It adds unnecessary uncertainty. How do we even know if a particular bug exists in older releases? Users can find known unresolved bugs for their version in jira.
Regards Scott On 31 Mar 2015 00:38, "Jacques Le Roux" <[email protected]> wrote: > So what would you suggest? To put one more sentence in the download page > to explain what you mentioned below? > > jacques > > Le 30/03/2015 13:22, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : > >> My preference is to have a download the page clean and well written >> without links to external wiki, unless really required. >> >> Jacopo >> >> On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Jacques Le Roux < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> I propose to use the last sentence I suggested and to add a link to the >>> wiki where we explain that, OK? >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> Le 24/03/2015 18:08, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : >>> >>>> On Mar 24, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Jacques Le Roux < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I did not meant to ask our users to backport bug fixes themselves, >>>>> only when a bug miss in a release and they need it. >>>>> >>>> If they need it, and they have the ability to create a backport, then >>>> they should be encouraged to file a Jira ticket and provide a patch that >>>> our committer can commit to the branch; even if they do not have the >>>> ability to provide the patch, they could still file the ticket for the >>>> release branch, possibly referring to the revision number (or Jira ticket) >>>> where the bug was fixed for the trunk. >>>> >>>> Jacopo >>>> >>>> >> >>
