How speedy are patches to be downported to 11?

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 10:58 AM Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> > On 17 Feb 2021, at 07:43, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > what is the general policy of downporting changes from 17 to 11?
>
> I know this is not what you asked ;-), but ...  At a minimum, when
> considering backporting to the previous LTS, it would be good to also
> consider porting to the latest shipping (or soon to be shipping) non-LTS
> release, .e.g in this case 16u. It’s desirable that there be a reasonable
> verification and migration path from prior releases to an update of
> the-latest-major-release.
>
>
Yes, that makes sense.

Thanks, Thomas



> -Chris.