Advice for bugs related to xea accounts files

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> writes:

> On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:21:43 +0100
> Cristian Marchi <cri79 at libero.it> wrote:
>
>> I've closed a couple of bugs related to some gnucash-xea files in the 
>> accounts subfolder. The patches were submitted to the 2.4 repo: do I 
>> have to submit them also to trunk?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Cristian
>
> Hi Cristian
>
> Having just gone through this and made a few errors I'll test my new
> knowledge here.
>
> All commits should be to trunk.
> Commits that need to be backported to 2.4 should be indicated as
> requiring audit by adding "BP" (no quotes) on a line on their own to
> the commit message.
> Having been audited, which in practice appears be that no-one objects
> to the backport, the changes are then cherry picked to to the 2.4
> branch.  Christian Stimming has written a script to do the cherry
> pick, utils/git-backport.sh.  This assumes you are using git.  It
> correctly adds the original trunk commit revision in [123456] to the
> commit message.
> Commit this to 2.4 branch.
>
> See:
> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development_Process#Fixing_Bugs
>
> I see that John Ralls has recently updated this section.

The exception is for translation updates, which only occur on the stable
branch.

> Mike Evans

-derek

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