Re: How do we track backpatches?

From: Cédric Villemain <cedric(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: How do we track backpatches?
Date: 2013-06-18 10:15:23
Message-ID: 201306181215.27662.cedric@2ndquadrant.com
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Le mardi 18 juin 2013 04:48:02, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 17:11 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Contributors,
> >
> > While going through this mailing list looking for missing 9.4 patches, I
> > realized that we don't track backpatches (that is, fixes to prior
> > versions) at all anywhere. Where backpatches are submitted by
> > committers this isn't an issue, but we had a couple major ones (like the
> > autovacuum fix) which were submitted by general contributors. The same
> > goes for beta fixes.
> >
> > Should we add a "prior version" category to the CF to make sure these
> > don't get dropped? Or do something else?
>
> A separate commit fest for tracking proposed backpatches might be
> useful.

Backpatches are bugs fix, isnt it ?

I will like to have a mail based bug tracker like debbugs.
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