----- 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. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
