On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Deepak Kapoor <dee...@kapoor.net.au> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute) it says > that most development is done in Trunk. > > Let's say a bug is found in 2.0.0-alpha-rc1. Should it then be fixed in > 2.0.0-alpha-rc1? How is this fix then applied to Trunk?
Patches get applied to trunk first, then if they're needed for a specific release branch they'll get applied to that branch as well. In the very unusual case that a bug is only in the release branch then whoever is managing the release would take care of applying the patch to the branch. As a beginning contributor I (and you, I hope!) just post patches to a Jira and, once the patch is in good enough shape with reviews and passes Jenkins, a committer takes care of the rest of the process. -andy
