On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Janne Grunau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking how we could make tracking bugfixes for release branches > easier. I see nothing fundamentally wrong with the Linux stable tree > workflow. It is as most linux kernel things email based and works by > adding a 'CC: [email protected]' line to the commit message. > > The email address should be in our case either a mailing list tracked by > patchwork or a email address which feeds patches into patchwork. The > commit hook of the git server will CC that address on the commit > notification message. If the CC:-line was forgotten the commit email > can still be bounced later to the address.
I'd very much welcome such a mailing list. Additionally, I'd also like to use it for general coordination of stable releases. > > Patchwork is unfortunately not an ideal fit for this purpose. The post > commit hook will mark patches as committed when they are pushed to > a single release branch although they might need to go into more than > one branch. Or it will miss it completely when the backport changed > the commit too much. Even if we can't use patchwork as tracker, it is still useful for archiving and viewing old bugs. > > While this is far from a perfect solution it is imho a worthwhile > improvement over the current situation. Indeed! > Has anyone a better idea? Objections? I'll do of course the > infrastructure work. > > > > I've created a snapshot of fate-suite for Libav 0.8. It is available as > http://fate-suite.libav.org/fate-suite-0.8/ or > rsync://fate-suite.libav.org/fate-suite-0.8/ Thanks, that looks very useful. Speaking of this, how much work would it be to have the fate machines test both master as well as release branches? > Backward incompatible changes to fate-suite are rare but not unknown. > I'm still contemplating if a patch for the 0.8 release branch changing > the url of the fate-rsync rule is helpful or not. I guess it needs at > least documentation that the release branch needs a different SAMPLES > location. Fate-suite-0.8 won't need much additional space if copied > using hard links. Indeed. Cheers -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
