[phpMyAdmin Developers] Branches and security fixes

[Maurício Meneghini Fauth]

Em dom, 18 de out de 2020 09:58, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Hello team,


Hello


> In the past, once a release entered the LTS phase with fixes only for
> security issues, we would switch from the QA branch to a MAINT branch and
> releases would have a patch level (such as 4.0.8.1). Since we no longer do
> patch-level release numbers, to be more consistent with Semver and some of
> the tools we use, we should decide how to handle these LTS releases.
>
> It often doesn’t make sense to merge QA_4_9 in to QA_5_0 because of
> changed file names and different function declarations. Even though the fix
> is often similar, it doesn’t always merge very well (one example we’ve seen
> several times lately is the change in array declarations from (IIRC) [ … ]
> to array( … ).
>
> Would it benefit us to maintain a MAINT_4_9 branch that is meant to NOT
> merge to QA_5_0. In that case, a security issue would need two pull
> requests/commits, one for MAINT_4_9 and one for QA_5_0 (soon to be 5_1
> anyway). I think that especially with the upcoming release of 5.1 this
> might make maintenance easier for us.
>

I think that makes sense and I agree.

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