Do you mean handle 3.9 and 3.8 slightly differently and be more strict on branch-3.8?
I can agree with that, but 3.9 can still receive more patches. Andor On Wed, 2024-03-20 at 13:16 -0700, Patrick Hunt wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > >
