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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,        gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: proposal for branch patches after first release
References: <20121129141415.GJ3540@adacore.com> <83wqx4v12l.fsf@gnu.org>	<50B78E0C.50607@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:16:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <50B78E0C.50607@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 29	Nov 2012 16:32:12 +0000")
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>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> We could also make better use of bugzilla for this.  I had stated
Pedro> my opinion on this
Pedro> <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-11/msg00395.html>:

Pedro> If people think the PR idea is too process burden for mainline, we could
Pedro> require this only for fixes that go into a release branch.  E.g., tag
Pedro> the PRs with a special tag, e.g. "in-7.6.1".

FWIW I wouldn't mind requiring a PR for each change on the branch.
If this gets too burdensome then we probably should be looking at a new
release anyway.

Tom