Re: [Python-Dev] Bugfix porting policy (was Re: Doc nits question)

2008-10-02 Thread Georg Brandl
Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> A large merge queue would accumulate making hard for someone to pick >> out the bugfixes. Of course, people could just merge fixes right after >> they apply it to the trunk, though. > > I think they should. To my knowledge, nobody goes through the changelog > anymore tr

Re: [Python-Dev] Bugfix porting policy (was Re: Doc nits question)

2008-10-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> A large merge queue would accumulate making hard for someone to pick > out the bugfixes. Of course, people could just merge fixes right after > they apply it to the trunk, though. I think they should. To my knowledge, nobody goes through the changelog anymore trying to find out what needs backpo

Re: [Python-Dev] Bugfix porting policy (was Re: Doc nits question)

2008-10-02 Thread Benjamin Peterson
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:18 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 2. Do bugfixes in trunk, and merge them to maint via svnmerge. >>>Arguments as for 1, but reversed: many blocks, but less problems with 3k. > > I'm not so sure that we need to block all the changes that we don't >

Re: [Python-Dev] Bugfix porting policy (was Re: Doc nits question)

2008-10-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
>> 2. Do bugfixes in trunk, and merge them to maint via svnmerge. >>Arguments as for 1, but reversed: many blocks, but less problems with 3k. I'm not so sure that we need to block all the changes that we don't want, though: it would be sufficient to just not merge them, right? (of course, som

[Python-Dev] Bugfix porting policy (was Re: Doc nits question)

2008-10-02 Thread Georg Brandl
Just now, Christian decided for option 2... Georg > This is another thing that needs to be discussed: how to handle backports > between 2.6 and 2.7. Up to now, we backported changes from trunk to maint > manually, but after the experience we've had with svnmerge, I see several > possibilities: >