2010/10/31 Alex Parker <parker.ale...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > 3) Point releases > > Not long ago there was an email sent to the list about bug fix releases (e.g. > 3.7.1). I strongly feel that we should try to do this where practical. To > that end, I propose that a further responsibility of the RM(s) is to prod, > poke and otherwise annoy people to backport bug fixes, or indeed to do it > themselves if possible. It would also be the RMs responsibility to decide > when to do a point release, and to see through the process.
It would be nice if commits which are supposed to be backported were marked in some way. Marcin Bukat