[GRASS-dev] things to do before the 6.3.0 release

Markus Neteler neteler at fbk.eu
Tue Dec 18 08:25:49 EST 2007


Glynn Clements wrote on 12/18/2007 02:04 AM:
> Patton, Eric wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a question about general committing practices. Should all commits
>> be applied against HEAD only, or should each author see to it that
>> commits are backported to release branches as well?
>>     
>
> IMHO, commit to head; leave it to the release manager to decide what
> should be backported.
Let say: in obvious case (incl. documentation), please fix directly.
The release manager would be quite happy to not fix trivial, non-breaking
things (and the release manager checks the commit logs anyway).

Markus


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