On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 3:06 PM Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> wrote:
> On 20.08.2019 20:50, Paul Hammant wrote:
> > If you all developed on trunk (patchsets for trunk, or direct to it),
> > and had an automated CI build setup that tested all permutations in
> > parallel, and a merging bot that attempted to cherry-pick commits
> > marked as [BUGFIX] back to all supported release branches without
> > human intervention (and Apache-TM votes), then you might have
> > streamlined things. Such a bot shouldn't shit the bed if the
> > cherry-pick fails *
>
> Duh. We have all that, except for the automated backport because no-one
> sane believes the word of *one* person that some [BUGFIX] commit is
> actually a viable candidate for any particular release branch. This is
> all documented in our community guide, which you'd be well advised to
> read before pontificating.
>
Yes. Someone definitely needs to LOOK at the "[BUGFIX]" commit first!
Received on 2019-08-20 21:10:09 CEST