On a backport, and backports

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday, December 30, 2016 10:04:19 PM UTC Lindsay Roberts wrote:
> Have been in discussion about backporting a bug fix -
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356479 to 5.8.
> 
> The only documentation I could find on backport policy was
> https://community.kde.org/Policies/Commit_Policy#Backport_bugfixes - which
> is roughly as the URI implies: "backport bugfixes."
> 
> This particular bugfix is of medium complexity, reasonable importance and
> has now been in master for quite some time, so I'd consider it a safe
> candidate, but, would like to ask:
> 
> 1) For some consensus before backporting this particular fix, and;
> 2) If the backport policy - natural grey area or no - should be somewhat
> expanded on.

Indeed looks like an excellent candidate for backporting. Let's have David and 
Marco consider it as well, though.
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sebas

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