From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Dreyer Subject: proposal to stop using "backport: " in commit logs Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:48:09 -0600 Message-ID: <552BF349.50909@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47358 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932150AbbDMQsK (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:48:10 -0400 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t3DGmAda020829 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:48:10 -0400 Received: from mbp.ktdreyer.com (vpn-62-245.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.62.245]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t3DGm9Uf020086 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2015 12:48:10 -0400 Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" A while ago this came up in #ceph-devel and I wanted to bring it to a wider audience. Should we stop the convention of adding the "backport: " tags in Git? Loic brought up the point that this data is essentially immutable after we merge it, and it's better to point at a Redmine tracker where we can alter the "backport" field. This makes it easier to adjust the "backport" data after the code's been merged to master. It also makes it easier for whoever is corralling the backport efforts, because the person only have one place to look (Redmine) instead of two (Redmine + git commit logs). For what it's worth I agree with Loic on this. Any objections? - Ken