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

[Campbell Barton]

On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 11:37 +0300, Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 11:24, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 11:15 +0300, Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory
> wrote:
> > Some fixed change behavior, were it's disputable weather we would
> want
> > such changes in a release - its not just a question of fix/broken
> > state.
>
> If a fix is unclear then this should be addressed indeed. That is
> what this work
> is for.
>
> > Again, there is still no justification for this change.
> > Who wanted this? Why?
>
> The motive here is to separate out stabilizing work from the work
> done
> on new features in master. This has been discussed since August.

This is still fuzzy to me, it seems this didn't go via regular
development communication channels?

This is turning into a meta-topic, since I don't mean to focus on
_this_ particular issue, it's more an example of something I think we
shuold avoid repeating,
I find it worrying that a significant change the the release process
which it seems multiple active devs (including admins) where unaware of. Without a clear outcome or statement about what will happen differently in the future.

I'd suggest all non-trivial changes to the release process be submitted
as proposals to developer.blender.org,
as well as being listed in the meeting minutes, allowing some time for
feedback before they're implemented.

> > Currently the branch fails to merge into master.
> > Who is responsible for tracking down & poking people to merge their
> > work?
>
> Whoever notices such a case should feel free to notify the author
> whose
> commits fail to merge, failing that poke Brecht, Dalai or me to
> ensure it
> gets handled.
>
> /Nathan