Backport to active branches by default

2024-03-20 Thread Andor Molnar
Hi ZK committers, I've come across recently that patch authors keep asking me to backport their patches to active branches, because it was only submitted to the master branch. I think we should get into the habit of submitting every accepted PRs to all active branches (today it's branch-3.8 and b

Re: Backport to active branches by default

2024-03-20 Thread Patrick Hunt
Shouldn't we only backport critical fixes into the non-mainline branch? The whole idea is that that's the "stable" release while the mainline is the most current... Regards, Patrick On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 12:54 PM Andor Molnar wrote: > Hi ZK committers, > > I've come across recently that patc

Re: Backport to active branches by default

2024-03-20 Thread Andor Molnar
Do you mean handle 3.9 and 3.8 slightly differently and be more strict on branch-3.8? I can agree with that, but 3.9 can still receive more patches. Andor On Wed, 2024-03-20 at 13:16 -0700, Patrick Hunt wrote: > Shouldn't we only backport critical fixes into the non-mainline > branch? The > w

Re: Backport to active branches by default

2024-03-20 Thread Patrick Hunt
Yes, that's what I mean. 3.9 is "current" - it should track latest changes. 3.8 is "stable" - it should only get critical fixes. Patrick On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 1:50 PM Andor Molnar wrote: > Do you mean handle 3.9 and 3.8 slightly differently and be more strict > on branch-3.8? > > I can agree