In general you should checkout 'trunk' and fix/add stuff there. The community will then decide whether the feature/fix should also be backported to 4.x (very likely) and whether a 3.x releases is also needed (very unlikely).
Shai On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Fermin Silva <silvafe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I found a possible feature addition to the ReplicationHandler class plus > some fixes to allow better extension/subclassing of this file. > > I'd like to contribute but I'm unsure about the steps required. > Firstly, I should create a JIRA ticket, I'm OK with that. > Secondly, I should checkout a branch, do the fixes and post the patch. > > Now, which branch should I checkout ? > The fix I'd like to contribute applies to SOLR 3.5.x, which is our > production version, but I'm sure that's a bit obsolete. > Also, I'm not sure if SOLR 4.x branch still uses the same kind of > replication, let alone trunk, which heads to SOLR 5.x. > > So, which branch you think I should checkout? Should I also backport or > *'forwardport'* to other branches ? > > Thanks in advance > -- > Fermin Silva >
