The mandatory extra work would come from having additional branches on the merge path up. In addition to actually merging the code, it’s the hassle of getting green CI results for the backport branches, delaying the merge.
Or these branches are skipped on the regular merge path and it becomes the job of the branch-backport volunteers - now responsible for every single commit that lands in that branch, including the future-ports of bug fixes. > On 24 Oct 2025, at 07:49, Dinesh Joshi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Committers are not required to backport their features to these branches so I > don't see this as 'mandatory' for all committers. Please elaborate if there > are aspects of maintenance that I've missed.
