[OpenAFS-devel] Pulling up changes to stable

[Benjamin Kaduk]

The change number would be the 5-digit number from gerrit, but any of those
would work well enough to identify what you want.

-Ben

On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 11:36:47PM +0000, Ben Huntsman wrote:
> Hi Stephan!
>    Thank you for the reply!  I am happy to provide that information.  To be clear, what are you looking for when you say "change numbers"?  The 5-digit number from Gerrit?  The Change-ID hash from the commit?  Or the sha of the commit to master itself?
> 
>    Thank you again!
> 
> -Ben
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wiesand@desy.de>
> Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 10:12 AM
> To: Ben Huntsman <ben@huntsmans.net>
> Cc: openafs-devel@openafs.org <openafs-devel@openafs.org>
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Pulling up changes to stable
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> > On 3. Mar 2023, at 18:13, Ben Huntsman <ben@huntsmans.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there!
> >    Thank you for accepting the patches I submitted to get OpenAFS working on AIX 7.2-7.3, as well as the previous ones!
> 
> thank you for whipping those up.
> 
> >    Now that they're all there in the master branch, what needs to be done to pull them up into an upcoming stable branch?
> 
> These changes are on my list of things I want to get into stable. I'm just slow.
> 
> >   I read the GitDevelopers page, but is it ok for anyone to push patches to Gerrit for an upcoming stable, or is there some additional review process?
> 
> In principle it's ok, provided that those patches are clean cherry-picks from master. In practice, it causes extra work if a change pulled up like this touches a file already modified by any other change in the queue. In addition, you'll sometimes (or rather often) find that the change from master doesn't apply cleanly to stable, and either needs to be modified or (preferrably) be supplemented by more changes from master not yet on stable.
> 
> Mind you, you're absolutely free to submit those pull-ups yourself. The most appreciated way you can help though is to provide a list of change numbers you'd like to see in an upcoming stable release. And keep poking...
> 
> Best regards,
>         Stephan
> 
> >
> >    Thank you much!
> >
> > -Ben
> 
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