glibc release branch procedures

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Wed May 27 01:47:00 GMT 2009


On Sunday 24 May 2009 07:44:40 Petr Baudis wrote:
>   I'm full-quoting the mail.  Summary of previous discussion: Me and
> Roland agree that (up to exceptions) only cherry-picked commits from
> master will appear on the branch, they will be only bugfixes and API/ABI
> will never be changed.  What we agree about less is the degree of
> strictness on what patches to include.

i think a pretty good rule is that if most distros are going to be including 
this anyways, it should be in the branch.  not sure if that helps guide the 
strictness aspect at all.
-mike
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