On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM Marcos Pegoraro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Em seg., 15 de dez. de 2025 às 09:19, Laurenz Albe < > [email protected]> escreveu: > >> Apart from the effort of the change, there is also the increased effort of >> backpatching documentation changes, and those efforts have to be >> outbalanced >> by the benefits. >> > > Are you sure we need to backpatch all these changes ? > I'm not talking about the job I'll have but the job the committer will > have. > There are almost 300 different section numbers and more than 700 places > will be changed, > so will be 700 multiplied by how many versions of it. Are you sure ? > > I changed 8 or 10 just for testing and sending two as an example, just to > see if it's worthwhile. > Environment Variables need to change source and target, 30 places. > String constants just source part, easy to change but harder to verify all > related parts. > > These changes aren't going to be back-patched. The concern stated is that given all the places being touched, the odds of future back-patches hitting one of them and resulting in a conflict has increased substantially. David J.
