Kyle Stanley wrote: > Benjamin, what are you thoughts on usage of the "needs backport to 2.7" > label? For most of the PRs I've reviewed I tend to avoid adding it myself, > but I've seen it used periodically. It seems to be used rather infrequently > ( > https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22needs+backport+...), > but I'm not entirely clear on when it should be used, particularly for > documentation-related PRs.
It should be used where appropriate. ;) It's a per-case thing where you have to balance backwards-compatibility with whatever you're changing. Plus you have to have someone doing the PR review who cares enough to deal with the (good) chance there will be a merge conflict in the backport. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/MMJJOEUBWWAJNQMDMBP7L77QR6VVBEGK/
