There seems to be a difference of opinion on whether a patch series should be squashed or not when it's backported to the stable branch. What's everyone's opinion on this? Whatever the result is we should update https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StableBranch#Proposing_Fixes .
This might affect some of us more than others because I like to split my bug fixes into first a patch that shows the bug and then a patch that fixes it, so I've generally always got 2 patches to backport.
As someone that works on a project that involves backporting changes to branches that have been abandoned by community it's probably easier to backport a squashed patch. And the note for the OSSA is going to have fewer reviews and be less confusing to the non-initiated if there's only 1 commit.
- Brant