criteria for patch inclusion in patch release?

[Andriy Gapon]

on 24/04/2012 20:19 Kurt Lidl said the following:
> What determines the patch worthiness of particular fixes that
> have gone into a the source tree for inclusion into the next
> patch release of a given -RELEASE branch?
> 
> As an example, there are two patches that improve life for
> those of us who use fxp ethernet adaptors (r233158, r233585).
> Both of these came out after the branch of 8.3-RELEASE,
> I believe.  Neither of these patches are in 8.3-STABLE, as
> far as I can tell.  I think they ought to be in at least
> 8-STABLE or 9-STABLE, based on their change dates and the
> "MFC after: 1 week"/"MFC after: 2 weeks" notations in the
> SVN entries.
> 
> In my ideal world, these two patches would wind up in the
> first patch release of 8.3-RELEASE, but that's my ideal world.
> Is there some way to nominate these changes for inclusion
> in what will be the p1 release of 8.3?
> 
> Thanks for any insight...

Only security issues and severe bugs affecting majority of the users get into
patch releases.  "Normal" bug fixes (should) get into the next release.

-- 
Andriy Gapon