(This came up during dev meeting in Shenzhen) We are running too many branches and/or when applying patches, we do not do a good job backporting to all active branches, especially fixes.
We have master, branch-2, branch-1, branch-1.4, branch-1.3, branch-1.2, and branch-1.1 active currently. If a dirty bug fix, the applier is backporting to 7 branches. It takes a while applying to all especially if the backport doesn't go in clean. I suppose the RM could monitor all upstream of them and then pull wanted patches back (we could do that too) but seems like a burden on an RMer. We should EOL a few? Nick is on branch-1.1 release at the moment. Perhaps this could be the last off branch-1.1. 1.2 hosts our current stable release though 1.3 is out. How about we cut a release off 1.3, call it stable, and then EOL 1.2 after another release or so? What you all think? Thanks, S
