Re: on dual-lived versions in maint

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:59:27PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 08:58:33AM +0200, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> > 2) Consideration of each case. If the available new release fixes the  
> > bug and isn't fraught with peril, pull it in. Otherwise ask upstream to  
> > make an intermediate release we can pull in or -- as a fallback -- do  
> > the cherry-picking & dev-versioning thing.
> 
> Yep, when I originally put forward my list of minimalist-maint
> suggestions, I always envisaged that we would, if possible, keep maint
> modules in sync with a CPAN release - but not at the risk of introducing
> new functionality and thus a new round of bugs. That's one of the things
> that delayed 5.10.1. So we try to persuade the CPAN author to produce a
> new release that has only the critical bug fixes and not a whole slew of
> new stuff too. If we can't do that, then we cherry-pick the bug fixes as a
> last resort.

( +1 )

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