Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches
Date
Msg-id 1172755.1717725855@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Responses Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches
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Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> On 6/6/24 14:12, Tom Lane wrote:
>> To get a sense of how much of a problem we have, I grepped the git
>> history for comments mentioning project policies.  Ignoring ones
>> that are really talking about very localized issues, what I found
>> is attached.  It seems like it's little enough that a single wiki
>> page with subsections ought to be enough.  I'm not super handy with
>> editing the wiki, plus I'm only firing on one cylinder today (seem
>> to have acquired a head cold at pgconf), so maybe somebody else
>> would like to draft something?

> I added them here with minimal copy editing an no attempt to organize or 
> sort into groups:
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Committing_checklist#Policies
> If someone has thoughts on how to improve I am happy to make more changes.

Thanks!  I summoned the energy to make a few more improvements,
particularly updating stuff that seemed out-of-date.  I'm sure
there's more that could be added here.

            regards, tom lane



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