AW: [openssl] OpenSSL_1_1_1-stable update

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

Hello,

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 5:21 PM Matt Caswell <matt at openssl.org> wrote:

>
> On 24/05/2019 15:10, Richard Levitte wrote:
> > If we go with the idea that an approval also involves approving what
> > branches it goes to, then what happens if someone realises after some
> > time that a set of commits (a PR) that was applied to master only
> > should really also be applied to 1.1.1?  Should the approval process
> > start over from scratch, i.e. all approvals that went to master should
> > be scratched and replaced with a new set of approvals (in principle)?
>
> No. If the PR was approved for master and applied to master then no
> problem - it
> stays in master. If it is later realised that it needs to be backported to
> other
> branches then, yes, new approvals need to be sought for that change to
> *those
> branches*.
>
> As far as I was aware we've always done this.
>
> This is essential in my mind. A change for one branch does not always make
> sense
> in another branch. So you can't just say "I approve this change" and *then*
> worry about what branches it applies to. A change only makes sense in the
> context of the branch it applies to.
>
>
I agree with Matt. For example, a patch providing new functionality cat be
cleanly applicable
to master and stable branches, but if it is applied to a stable branch, it
breaks the policy.

-- 
SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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