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Re: proposal for branch patches after first release
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:16:27 -0700
- Subject: Re: proposal for branch patches after first release
- References: <20121129141415.GJ3540@adacore.com> <83wqx4v12l.fsf@gnu.org> <50B78E0C.50607@redhat.com>
>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
Pedro> We could also make better use of bugzilla for this. I had stated
Pedro> my opinion on this
Pedro> <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-11/msg00395.html>:
Pedro> If people think the PR idea is too process burden for mainline, we could
Pedro> require this only for fixes that go into a release branch. E.g., tag
Pedro> the PRs with a special tag, e.g. "in-7.6.1".
FWIW I wouldn't mind requiring a PR for each change on the branch.
If this gets too burdensome then we probably should be looking at a new
release anyway.
Tom