Bugzilla 2.18 Branch rules

[David Miller]

Gervase Markham wrote:

> David Miller wrote:
> 
>> *ANYTHING* that gets checked in on the branch also gets checked in on 
>> the trunk, unless there's some damn good reason it shouldn't be (like 
>> the section of code it belongs to has already been replaced by some 
>> new feature introduction on the trunk or something like that).
> 
> Or it's a hacked fix for a deep problem that we are going to fix 
> properly on the trunk? ;-)

yeah.

>> Templates *DO* *NOT* *GET* *TOUCHED* unless *absolutely* necessary.
> 
> Does this rule only apply before the 2.18 release, or for the entire 
> lifetime of the branch?

Lifetime of the branch.  This has already been our policy with the 2.16 
branch.  The exceptions we made there were because of filtering 
problems, which were security fixes.

We may make exceptions for the charting stuff for example (if that's 
what you're asking), since we really wanted that, and it's likely to be 
one of the last things the localizers would be translating anyway.

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