Hey Lennart, all, Lennart Poettering [2015-08-27 18:02 +0200]: > I used to add "Backport: bugfix" style "git notes" to systemd commits > I deemed backport-worthy. These headers have not been added to any > commits since we moved to github (primarily, because the notes weren't > ported over for quite some time). Nobody complained about this. Which > makes me wonder if anyone actually cares.
TL;DR: I don't. > Zbigniew, Michael, Martin, Lukasz, Michal, do you actually care for > these git notes? Did you ever use them? Did you even know about them? I did know about them, and back in the days when we had much longer release cycles I (that is, Debian/Ubuntu) mostly consumed them via the -stable branches, and just slurped them in wholesale into our packages for the current development series. Now that we have frequent release cycles and a much better CI both upstream and downstream I almost entirely stopped (having to) backport stuff. We used to have a dozen up to ~ 50 backported patches in the package, now it's usually 0 to 2. For packages in our stable releases we've never used them, but always just cherry-picked individual (and very few) patches. So in summary: Carefully marking patches for backporting has been obsoleted by CI and frequent releases for us. Which is infinitely better in just every way -- we now have great releases which we can more or less "just use". :-) Thank you for checking! Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
