From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 13:02:10 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC76D106564A for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:02:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca) Received: from eccles.ee.ryerson.ca (eccles.ee.ryerson.ca [141.117.1.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9AD8FC0C for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.ee.ryerson.ca (eccles [172.16.1.2]) by eccles.ee.ryerson.ca (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q6HCoXEK087978; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:50:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca) Received: from 206.108.127.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dmagda) by webmail.ee.ryerson.ca with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:50:33 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:50:33 -0400 From: "David Magda" To: "Eitan Adler" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The MFC process... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:02:10 -0000 On Tue, July 17, 2012 02:10, Eitan Adler wrote: > Of interest to me: if it could be limited to just the commits I made > and optionally show me the log message and diff it would be very > helpful. > > On a general note: be careful with any level of automation with this > script though. Sometimes there are good reasons that a commit wasn't > MFCed. A lot of messages have a "MFC after" note on them, so the the developer/s in question already know which commits are good candidates for bringing over to STABLE. It may simply be that they could use a reminder on them. If there are commits that would be nice to backport, but don't have an "MFC" note on them, then an email and/or PR would probably be the best way to enquire about their candidacy. I think having a script automatically pulling changes from HEAD, to STABLE, is a bad idea. A human should be the one doing it and examining the results, even if they get an automated reminder.