Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches

2024-06-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 10:04 PM Tom Lane wrote: > > I added them here with minimal copy editing an no attempt to organize or > > sort into groups: > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Committing_checklist#Policies > > If someone has thoughts on how to improve I am happy to make more changes. > > T

Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches

2024-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway writes: > On 6/6/24 14:12, Tom Lane wrote: >> To get a sense of how much of a problem we have, I grepped the git >> history for comments mentioning project policies. Ignoring ones >> that are really talking about very localized issues, what I found >> is attached. It seems like it's l

Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches

2024-06-06 Thread Joe Conway
On 6/6/24 14:12, Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haas writes: On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:25 AM Hannu Krosing wrote: Not absolutely sure, but would at least adding a page to PostgreSQL Wiki about this make sense ? I feel like we need to do something. Tom says this is a policy, and he's made that comme

Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches

2024-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:25 AM Hannu Krosing wrote: >> Not absolutely sure, but would at least adding a page to PostgreSQL >> Wiki about this make sense ? > I feel like we need to do something. Tom says this is a policy, and > he's made that comment before about other thing

Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches

2024-06-06 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:25 AM Hannu Krosing wrote: > Not absolutely sure, but would at least adding a page to PostgreSQL > Wiki about this make sense ? I feel like we need to do something. Tom says this is a policy, and he's made that comment before about other things, but the fact that they're

Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches

2024-06-06 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 8:29 PM Tom Lane wrote: > > Joe Conway writes: > > I was having a discussion regarding out-of-support branches and effort > > to keep them building, but could not for the life of me find any actual > > documented policy (although I distinctly remember that we do something..

Re: question regarding policy for patches to out-of-support branches

2024-06-05 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway writes: > I was having a discussion regarding out-of-support branches and effort > to keep them building, but could not for the life of me find any actual > documented policy (although I distinctly remember that we do something...). > Is the policy written down somewhere, or is it onl