On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 3:06 PM Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 20.08.2019 20:50, Paul Hammant wrote: > > If you all developed on trunk (patchsets for trunk, or direct to it), > > and had an automated CI build setup that tested all permutations in > > parallel, and a merging bot that attempted to cherry-pick commits > > marked as [BUGFIX] back to all supported release branches without > > human intervention (and Apache-TM votes), then you might have > > streamlined things. Such a bot shouldn't shit the bed if the > > cherry-pick fails * > > Duh. We have all that, except for the automated backport because no-one > sane believes the word of *one* person that some [BUGFIX] commit is > actually a viable candidate for any particular release branch. This is > all documented in our community guide, which you'd be well advised to > read before pontificating. > Yes. Someone definitely needs to LOOK at the "[BUGFIX]" commit first!