> > > >> However, several factors complicate that. First, >> not all patches applied cleanly as the three different codebases were >> often in very different places. Second, people are human, and I >> imagine some commits just didn't make it. > >Sounds like something a tool would help with, but I don't know of said >toolŠplugin for Jenkins, maybe? Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to >look for similar commits to 2 different branches. > >Would this maybe be something that falls under a Maintainer to manage? >e.g. for the Agent Maintainer, make sure /agent patches are applied to >the last 3 release branches?
That does sound like a lot of work. Does this mean the maintainer asks the patch submitter to test against the last 3 release branches? -- Chiradeep
