On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Dominic Cleal <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wonder what this merging back process would look like. Would you have > a way to suggest a particular commit for backporting, via another ticket > or some other mechanism? Would Puppet Labs be committing to backport > anything that looks like a bug? >
Good question. Right now I'm thinking that we would try to backport, but if it turns out to be non-trivial we might push it back to the submitter and ask for a patch against the older branch. As David said, missing a backport is less of a loss than missing the forward-port. > As somebody who has submitted code to the "wrong" branch a number of > times, I think this would be a useful change. I've submitted patches to > master (that became Telly) over a year ago and it's a shame that they're > still unreleased because I hadn't chosen the right branch. I was > probably taking the "bug fixes only" policy of 2.7.x more literally than > was actually the case. > I have also submitted to the wrong branch many times :) You might have been taking the "bug fix only" policy very literally, but I'd also like to see us really try to take it much more literally. It seems like a lot of feature changes kept happening on what was supposed to be a branch that just got more and more stable. On the other hand we weren't trying to follow semantic versioning at that time, so the 3rd number in the 2.7 versions didn't really mean bugfix releases. > With a consistent master-first and backport policy we could follow, it > might make development easier and more transparent to people wondering > why changes are in one version and not another. > I hope it makes it easier :) > Cheers, > > -- > Dominic Cleal > Red Hat Consulting > m: +44 (0)7817 878113 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
