[asterisk-dev] Minor Release Branches

[Matt Fredrickson]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Kevin Harwell <kharwell at digium.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Corey Farrell <git at cfware.com> wrote:
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>> I'd like to propose that we make minor release branches temporary.  What I
>> mean is 13.15, 15.0, etc.  The sole purpose of the '13.15' was to allow
>> cherry-picking fixes to the 13.15.x series.  As soon as 13.16.0 was released
>> the '13.15' branch was closed to new merges.  The latest commit on '13.15'
>> is tagged as '13.15.1' so we would not be orphaning any commits by doing
>> this. When you click "Cherry-pick" from the gerrit web ui and type "15", the
>> selection list shows "13.15" first (and selects it by default).
>>
>> Anyone have thoughts on this?
>>
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> Sounds good to me. You might even be able to automate this by making it part
> of the mkrelease script.

That sounds good to me as well.  I think if we ran into a weird
situation where we have to add a release to an old tag (heaven forbid)
we could "make" it work some way or another.

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Matthew Fredrickson
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