applying fixes, after 4.6 is out

[Daan Hoogland <da...@gmail.com>]

H,

Being kind of an optimist sometimes I want to start talking on how to
handle PRs from 4.6.1 onward. If you don't understand what I'm talking
about, please feel free to bother me with questions.

I had a discussion with Remi last night about refusing PRs or not based on
the premiss they are fixing bugs in the prior version as well. If a PR can
be applied on a prior version I think we should just do this and not bother
the contributor with it. We can apply it on a prior branch and merge it
forward. It might give and extra burden on us for closing the PR but the
other side is that it will not discourage contributors.

thoughts?
-- 
Daan

Re: applying fixes, after 4.6 is out

[Daan Hoogland <da...@gmail.com>]

valid question but is this more work in comparison to having the
contribution be refused on the grounds of not being on the right version?
We encounter a conflict and then bring it back to the contributor...
further flow is untouched. agree?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Boris Schrijver <bo...@pcextreme.nl>
wrote:

> Good idea! If there aren't any merge conflicts we could even automate it
> by means of a script.
>
> Though, who's responsible if there are conflicts? Extra work, testing
> against the other branch?
>
> On October 30, 2015 at 11:45 AM Daan Hoogland <da...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> H,
>
> Being kind of an optimist sometimes I want to start talking on how to
> handle PRs from 4.6.1 onward. If you don't understand what I'm talking
> about, please feel free to bother me with questions.
>
> I had a discussion with Remi last night about refusing PRs or not based on
> the premiss they are fixing bugs in the prior version as well. If a PR can
> be applied on a prior version I think we should just do this and not bother
> the contributor with it. We can apply it on a prior branch and merge it
> forward. It might give and extra burden on us for closing the PR but the
> other side is that it will not discourage contributors.
>
> thoughts?
> --
> Daan
>
>


-- 
Daan