[Bf-committers] Committing fixes for releases in stabilizing branch.

[Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 03:39, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> - How to handle fixes that are first made to master,
>   and later on we find should be applies to the stable branch
>   (merge? cherry pick?).

To make merging process as clean as possible I would say revert in master,
apply to stable, merge down to master.


> - How to handle fixes that backfire
>   (eg, a fix we make in the stable branch, then cause issues,
>   then we want to remove from the stable branch but keep in master).

What kind of backfire are you talking about?

> - How strict are we on merging immediately after committing
>   to the
> stable branch?
>   So far there has been some accumulation of multiple commits
>   to the stable branch which then get merged.
>
>   Is it discouraged to push multiple fix commits,
>   then a merge afterwards?

Since the assumption is a commit per fix it'd be ideal to merge down to
master once the fix is in stable.

/Nathan