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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
July 23, 2009 09:29
Subject:
Re: PATCH: clarify where to patch against
Message ID:
c9ab31fc0907230929s28ef76a1geb9bef8b20b43d7b@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Rafael
Garcia-Suarez<rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/23 Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>:
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Ricardo
>> SIGNES<perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Talking about Perl 5 git repo tonight, some questions came up about where
>>> development really happens.  This patch is a bit of clarification about
>>> where/why patches go to blead/maint.
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure about this patch.  Rarely should a patch ever be
>> applied directly to maint without hitting blead first.  I can only
>> think of one case where I had a patch applied to maint only and that
>> was due to API differences between blead and maint.  I'd rather that
>> patches be pointed at blead than at maint without being directed by
>> the appropriate pumpking.
>
> Chip has already applied it, although with another commit message,
> with a workflow leak somehow:
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/7f4ffa9dba4691a2cd3285cfb3fd76f6f6bd661
>

Maybe Ricardo and/or Chip can fill us in on the conversation that led
to this patch.  It certainly is not an accurate description of current
practice.  Particularly the statement, "Maintenance versions should
only be altered to add critical bug fixes," is a pretty radical change
and raises more questions than it answers (such as what constitutes
"critical").  Even if that's a release workflow we can or should get
to, it's a long way from here to there and at the very least the doc
patch is more predictive than descriptive.

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