Proposal to revitalize release branches: Make them cheap, and make them work.

[Allan McRae]

On 03/10/14 06:54, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> The glibc release branches don't work. We know they don't work, and I'd
> like to fix that. The only way I see them working is if we make them
> super duper easy to use for all the distributions, and from that bootstrap
> some active backports. Thus this proposal is aimed at making it as simple
> as possible to checkin a bug fix to a release branch and monitor such
> fixes.
> 
> Here is what I propose:
>

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> Comments?
> 
> If nobody disagrees I can adjust the Release wiki to indicate the changes.

It looks like no-one disagreed with this.  Carlos, are you going to
update the wiki?

Allan