How to track the backport of important fixes?

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 23:20:23 CET Michael Palimaka wrote:
> On 09/03/16 21:17, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio at kdemail.net> writes:
> >> I discovered this many weeks ago [1] and I asked the Kubuntu devs on IRC
> >> whether they could backport the fix to the 15.08 branch. They told me
> >> that
> >> they would do it, but apparently they didn't and today I discovered that
> >> Kubuntu users are still affected.
> >> 
> >> Maybe IRC was not the right channel, maybe I should have contacted the
> >> Kubuntu devs on the kde-distro-packaging list. Or maybe we need something
> >> more, something that allows us to track in an easier way which bug gets
> >> fixed in which distribution.
> > 
> > At least so far, this kind of PSA saying "hey guys, please make sure you
> > include commit XYZ in your packages" is normally sent to
> > kde-distro-packagers. If that also doesn't produce any results, I guess
> > you could email some specific packagers directly?
> 
> I'm curious how many people on the distro side are actually on that list
> currently.

I agree that the kde-packagers list is the best place to communicate such 
things. What needs to be made sure in order for it to work well is that
1) all backport-relevant patches are announced on the list
2) all distros are represented in the list

To help with 1), maybe we could have a commit-message tag that would cause it 
to automatically be sent to the packagers list, because not all KDE devs are 
on the list

To help with 2), we should probably educate distrubutions better about the 
existence of the list (though this list may already help with that).