Re: How do we track backpatches? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: How do we track backpatches?
Date
Msg-id 1371523682.13762.10.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to How do we track backpatches?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: How do we track backpatches?  (Cédric Villemain <cedric@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: How do we track backpatches?  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 17:11 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Contributors,
> 
> While going through this mailing list looking for missing 9.4 patches, I
> realized that we don't track backpatches (that is, fixes to prior
> versions) at all anywhere.  Where backpatches are submitted by
> committers this isn't an issue, but we had a couple major ones (like the
> autovacuum fix) which were submitted by general contributors.  The same
> goes for beta fixes.
> 
> Should we add a "prior version" category to the CF to make sure these
> don't get dropped?  Or do something else?

A separate commit fest for tracking proposed backpatches might be
useful.





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