Re: How do we track backpatches?

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44:53PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 12:32 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > The CF app was and is specifically for dealing with CFs. Having it
> > deal with backpatches makes it, well, a bugtracker. It's not meant to
> > be that. If we want a bugtracker, then it has very different
> > requirements.
> 
> It's not in evidence that the requirements are different.  The CF app is
> basically a list of lists of patches with date information and
> associated person's names.  Tracking backpatch candidates doesn't sound
> that much different.  (That said, I'm not convinced backpatches need any
> tracking at all, but if they did, I think the CF app would be just
> fine.)

Agreed; bug fixes to be back-patched have appeared in most CFs, and I think
the CF process and app have served them fine.

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Noah Misch
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