On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:39:37AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > FWIW in libguestfs we have such a policy. Every few weeks I evaluate > _all_ commits along the development branch and cherry pick those that > meet this policy back to the stable branch, followed by making a new > stable release. Here is the policy: > > http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#libguestfs_version_numbers > from "Our criteria for backporting changes are ..."
For completeness, here is an example stable branch containing cherry-picked commits: http://fedorapeople.org/git/?p=rjones/public_git/libguestfs.git;a=log;h=refs/remotes/origin/stable-1.14 Compare to the master branch to see which commits did and didn't make it in. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/