<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 January 2014 08:57, Chandler Carruth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chandlerc@google.com" target="_blank">chandlerc@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I don't think there is any need to rebase or send merge requests etc... They'll apply cleanly, or I can manually merge them if need be. The question is not how to merge them but *if* we should merge them, and if someone will create tags / release numbers to track this.</div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That's what I meant by "merge request", not if they *would* apply, but if they *should* be applied. ;)</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It wasn't clear from my first email, I apologise, but I'm trying to come up with a process where we can easily detect, either now and later if you search the list, which patches are being proposed for back-porting. Today, we use "[PATCH]" for trunk, maybe we should have something like "[3.4.1]" or "[PATCH 3.4.1]" for the back-ports.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The current release process is a bit confused in that we don't have a clear idea of which patches are being applied to each release candidate, because they're all spread out in the list without a clear identification, normally just copying the release manager, or waiting for him/her to pick it up from the discussion. I'd like to reduce this overhead by having clear semantics, so that the release manager could just filter for a specific pattern and be sure to have caught all back-port patches.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That'd also make it easier to write the change log, just by filtering emails on a mailing list.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Makes sense?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,</div><div class="gmail_extra">--renato</div></div>