Backport on R16

[Jacques Le Roux]

Hi,

Yesterday we had a small conversation with Pawan on Slack. He wondered why I did not backport to R16 since we switched to Git. I explained that it was
more laziness than everything else. I asked him how he was doing it. As I suspected it's all by hand. That's why I'm reluctant to do it.

Currently I backport in Git (to R18 and R17) by cherry picking. That's also hand work. I think we should concentrate on the tools necessary to
backport with Git. Like the convenient scripts we had previously with Svn.

And if we want to continuously/seriously backport to R16 we need a such tool too, from Git to Svn, using patches maybe. An alternative is to stop
supporting R16 and release R17. Sincerely, I'm actually more inclined to this alternative...

My 2 cts

Jacques

[Jacques Le Roux]

I created OFBIZ-11268 for that

Le 26/11/2019 à 11:54, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :

> Yesterday we had a small conversation with Pawan on Slack. He wondered why I did not backport to R16 since we switched to Git. I explained that it
> was more laziness than everything else. I asked him how he was doing it. As I suspected it's all by hand. That's why I'm reluctant to do it.
>
> Currently I backport in Git (to R18 and R17) by cherry picking. That's also hand work. I think we should concentrate on the tools necessary to
> backport with Git. Like the convenient scripts we had previously with Svn.
>
> And if we want to continuously/seriously backport to R16 we need a such tool too, from Git to Svn, using patches maybe. An alternative is to stop
> supporting R16 and release R17. Sincerely, I'm actually more inclined to this alternative...
>
> My 2 cts

[Jacques Le Roux]

Erratum inline...

Le 26/11/2019 à 21:02, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :
> I created OFBIZ-11268 for that

Actually it's OFBIZ-11297

>
> Le 26/11/2019 à 11:54, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :
>> Yesterday we had a small conversation with Pawan on Slack. He wondered why I did not backport to R16 since we switched to Git. I explained that it
>> was more laziness than everything else. I asked him how he was doing it. As I suspected it's all by hand. That's why I'm reluctant to do it.
>>
>> Currently I backport in Git (to R18 and R17) by cherry picking. That's also hand work. I think we should concentrate on the tools necessary to
>> backport with Git. Like the convenient scripts we had previously with Svn.
>>
>> And if we want to continuously/seriously backport to R16 we need a such tool too, from Git to Svn, using patches maybe. An alternative is to stop
>> supporting R16 and release R17. Sincerely, I'm actually more inclined to this alternative...
>>
>> My 2 cts
>
>