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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:41:41PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:59:12PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Todd Rinaldo <toddr@cpanel.net> wrote: > > > This is arguably a bug fix to 5.12 do we think it's worthy of a back port for 5.12.2? > > > > +1 to cherry pick +1 to cherry pick. > > > > I'm not sure it alone is sufficient to prompt a 5.12.2 release, but if > > one happens later this year, I think it should probably be included. > > I thought that Jesse's plan was, barring unforeseen circumstances, to make a > 5.12.2 release about 3 months after 5.12.1 > > However, in the interests of smoothness and smoking, I don't think that it's a > good idea to wait until near the release date before merging lots of changes > to the branch. Yet, right now that's what seems to be happening - everyone is > leaving it to someone else to consider what should be merged into maint-5.12, > and consequently it's rather "special biologist word", and would-be smokers > are idle. > > Does regular merge reviewing (and regular patch reviewing and regular bug > reviewing) really not happen unless a pumpking does it, or a pumpking gently > but repeatedly cajoles others to do it? I do consider "gentle and repeated cajoling" to be in my job description ;) Yes, I would hugely appreciate cherrypicking to happen over the course of the next twoish months, so that there is not a patchfrenzy at the last minute. > Nicholas Clark > > --Thread Previous | Thread Next