How to track the backport of important fixes?

[Elvis Angelaccio]

2016-03-09 19:28 GMT+01:00 Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org>:

> 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
>

I think the already available CC: tag is enough for this. :)


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

What if a distribution is on the list but forgets/doesn't care to apply the
fix?

Cheers,
Elvis


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