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?

Looks good to me.  I have been pulling anything I considered a security
fix to the 2.19 branch and some other small bug fixes. I am sure there
are more backports being used by various distros, so it would save
everyone time if they all got pushed.

Allan