Freezes and Git Migration

[Niko Sams]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:25, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> This however means not releasing anything besides TP's or alpha's from
> master. Even Beta-Releases would then be done from a stable branch and
> the branching would happen when the hard-feature-freeze starts. That
> would mean that master is always open for feature-merging (or shut down
> at most a single day)
+1

> and doing bugfixes is as easy as possible (check
> out the oldest branch that has the bug, fix it there, wait until it
> propagates upwards).
I think that is problematic, as I have to wait up to one month until the
bugfix is in master (where I do most development)

Is it possible to immediately (semi-)automatically merge the bugfix commits
upwards? Or decide this case-by-case?

Niko