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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:

> On 10/18/2013 03:06 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote:
> > Andreas:
> >
> > I like the idea of having the reviewers require this until it has been
> > automated. But, assuming the author does put the "backport:
> > stable/havana" in the commit message, who should be responsible for
> > actually doing the backport? Should it be the original author, or a
> > (core) reviewer?
>

I just asked about this in openstack-dev and learned there's a stable
maintenance team that oversees all the projects, looking for bug fixes to
backport. Docs are not really in their scope, though. For nova, anyone can
propose a backport, taking from the original patch. Once upon a time, there
was a special team who could approve stable/relname changes, but I think
that's docs-core for us.

>
> Lorin, interesting idea.
>
> AFAIK, currently it's the job of the original author and I'm not
> proposing to change this for now. There might be conflicts that need to
> be resolved and the original author better knows how to handle that.
>
>
Yep, I agree with this, that it's easiest for the original author to do the
merge. In the first few weeks it won't be a difficult judgement but after a
while it could be harder.

The actual backport is not too tough to do, I do have to follow the
instructions each time, and I just updated them more precisely after doing
a havana backport.


> Having backport: stable/havana will help to check that the backport is
> actually done - a job for some volunteer(s).
>

This tag will really help docs-core keep up with what's needed, and spreads
out the judgement call. I really like it, let's add it to our conventions
if we all like it.

Anne


>
> Or some people do this regularly...
>
> I prefer to do my backports myself - to get them in quickly ;) but
> wouldn't object at all to hand this over if somebody volunteers,
>
> Andreas
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