[systemd-devel] Backport git notes

[Martin Pitt]

Hey Lennart, all,

Lennart Poettering [2015-08-27 18:02 +0200]:
> I used to add "Backport: bugfix" style "git notes" to systemd commits
> I deemed backport-worthy. These headers have not been added to any
> commits since we moved to github (primarily, because the notes weren't
> ported over for quite some time). Nobody complained about this. Which
> makes me wonder if anyone actually cares.

TL;DR: I don't.

> Zbigniew, Michael, Martin, Lukasz, Michal, do you actually care for
> these git notes? Did you ever use them? Did you even know about them?

I did know about them, and back in the days when we had much longer
release cycles I (that is, Debian/Ubuntu) mostly consumed them via the
-stable branches, and just slurped them in wholesale into our packages
for the current development series. Now that we have frequent release
cycles and a much better CI both upstream and downstream I almost
entirely stopped (having to) backport stuff. We used to have a dozen
up to ~ 50 backported patches in the package, now it's usually 0 to 2.

For packages in our stable releases we've never used them, but always
just cherry-picked individual (and very few) patches.

So in summary: Carefully marking patches for backporting has been
obsoleted by CI and frequent releases for us. Which is infinitely
better in just every way -- we now have great releases which we can
more or less "just use". :-)

Thank you for checking!

Martin

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