Hi all, since we've started with Eclipse quarterly release cadence we've basically stopped development on maintenance branch. I saw that few commits were done here and there, but I didn't found any strategy / guidance.
In short, I maintain private 4.12 SDK branch with lot of backported patches from master. I do this for our product, and I plan to start another maintenance branch for 4.15 soon. This time I believe it would make sense to not maintain my own private branch, but just push backported patches we need to the "official" R4_15_maintenance branch. What would be the "right" way to do so? Do I need any approval from component leads, do I need extra bugs opened to backport regression fixes, any "+1" from other developers? Or can I just push, run gerrit build, and if it is green, merge? Since no one seem to work on maintenance branches anyway, this should be not a problem for anyone? Another question would be if we could produce some regular SDK snapshot builds from that branch, and if there are resources & interest for this? I personally don't need that build, we build SDK locally, but it could be something people are searching for. I'm asking here because I believe it makes sense to give results of my (paid) maintenance work back to community, and it is really sad to see people searching for some fixes on a "known good" SDK version but seeing only the way to get a new major SDK version with new unknown regressions instead. Please note, I do not plan to maintain backports branch for every major SDK release, I have only resources (and plan) to do this for *some* releases. So there are basically two questions: 1) What are the rules for backporting patches to maintenance branch? 2) Any interest in producing SDK builds from this branch? -- Kind regards, Andrey Loskutov https://www.eclipse.org/user/aloskutov --------------------------------------------- Спасение утопающих - дело рук самих утопающих --------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ platform-dev mailing list platform-dev@eclipse.org To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev
