[Mesa-dev] Mesa 8.0 branch maintenance

[Jakob Bornecrantz]

----- Original Message -----
> We've been really crappy about keeping up on stable releases.  The
> biggest problem has been bug fixes sitting on master never getting
> cherry picked over.  Release time comes along, and either I cherry
> pick 57 patches over the day before the release or Jakob sends out
> an email with a similar list.
>

Slightly OT: my auto-cherry picker found some comments that didn't
apply cleanly, did you ever cherry pick those over?

> 
> I think I have a plan that will remedy this situation.  Every time
> I see a patch go by that is marked with the stable note (or
> appears to fix a bugzilla on the stable release), I will pick it
> over to an 8.0-staging branch.  This branch will live in my
> personal repo on fdo.
> 
> I will send out a weekly list with the patches on 8.0-staging that
> haven't spawned any bug reports on master.  If there are no
> objections in, say, 24 hours, I'll merge it to the release branch.
> Folks can also notify me about "bad" commits on the 8.0-staging
> branch at any time.
>

Sounds like a excellent plan. One nitpick wouldn't just be better of
merging last weeks list the time you send out a new list? Giving
people more time to comment.

> 
> The first such list is below.  This is 40% of the patches
> currently on the 8.0-staging branch.
> 

Cheers, Jakob.