Re: [TCLCORE] TCL/Tk planning meeting on Monday 28th at 12:00 UTC

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I would definitely prefer prioritizing fixes for 9.0 first. Moreover, at some point in the future backporting should not be mandated for bugs that have a low severity level (leaving aside the question of who determines the severity of a bug!)

 

I am ok with not requiring a TIP but having one would forestall objections.

 

/Ashok

 

From: Jan Nijtmans <jan...@gm...> 
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2024 4:16 PM
To: Harald Oehlmann <har...@el...>
Cc: Tcl Core List <tcl...@li...>
Subject: Re: [TCLCORE] TCL/Tk planning meeting on Monday 28th at 12:00 UTC

 

Op za 26 okt 2024 om 14:54 schreef Harald Oehlmann:

Possible points:
...
- what is the new merge strategy core-8-6branch->core-8-branch-main or 
may we revert this?

 

We didn't discuss this in the meeting, but ... I think we should reverse

the merge-order. Since 8.6 and 8.7 have less attention, it's not logical

to be forced to implement Tcl 9.0 bug-fixes on 8.6 (or 8.7) first.

 

Example: Ticket 7677029cd9

    Tk Source Code: View Ticket <https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/7677029cd9> 

The fix is initially created for 9.0, but should (eventually) be

backported to 8.7, or not. Reversing the merge order allows

us to focus on the fix, and worry about an eventual

backport later.

 

Should I write a TIP on this? Or can we simply agree on it,

write out a message and continue?

 

Advantage: no merge-mark's any more (which were

always difficult to explain anyway)

 

Regards,

   Jan Nijtmans