Shouldn't we only backport critical fixes into the non-mainline branch? The whole idea is that that's the "stable" release while the mainline is the most current...
Regards, Patrick On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:54 PM Andor Molnar <an...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi ZK committers, > > I've come across recently that patch authors keep asking me to backport > their patches to active branches, because it was only submitted to the > master branch. > > I think we should get into the habit of submitting every accepted PRs > to all active branches (today it's branch-3.8 and branch-3.9) unless > it's explicitly asked otherwise. > > For example, in case of a big new feature which requires a major > version upgrade, we should not do that automatically, but for > everything else, like bug fixes, improvements, code cleanups, doc > updates, etc. feel free and submit everywhere. > > If we don't do that, we'll end up not shipping anything in minor > releases. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > Andor > > > >
