[Mageia-dev] Proposal of a backporting process

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op zaterdag 25 juni 2011 19:33:15 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
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> However, I think it must be made a painless as possible to packagers :
> - in the common case, allow to submit directly from cauldron to the
> backports media, but let the BS detect that and automatically do the SVN
> copy part. 
> - for the situations I described above, work with the backport
> branch similarly as we work on updates (technically speaking : SVN,
> BS...).
[...]

i would prefer to keep things separate, an mgarepo switch command or even a 
mgarepo backport shortcut, then current branch/revision/whatever could be made 
into backports or something...
and from then on, you can submit like "normal"