On 03/26/2014 02:48 PM, Georg Baum wrote:
Richard Heck wrote:
We always have people who continue with the previous series, for one
reason or another. I don't see any reason to deprive them of bug-fixes
we already have.
Well, we need to avoid that a fix to a minor problem creates a major
regression. I am a big fan of backporting fixes to the stable branch where
it is sensible, but to each backport there is a risk attached that we can't
quantify. IMO the most important property of the stable branch should be
that users can _always_ upgrade from version x.y.n to x.y.n+1 without even
thinking whether this might cause a problem.
Most of the recent commits are Jurgen's, so we have a second opinion, in
effect.
Therefore I do not tend to think in terms of depriving users from bug fixes,
but the other way round: Unless I have strong evidence that a bug fix is
harmless I would not backport it.
Yes, I agree. I try to be cautious.
This might look awkward at first sight.
Maybe it is only understandable if you already were the one who created a
major problem by backporting a minor bugfix (Unfortunately I know that
situation far too well).
You're not the only one.
Richard
