[Python-Dev] Bugfix porting policy (was Re: Doc nits question)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> A large merge queue would accumulate making hard for someone to pick
> out the bugfixes. Of course, people could just merge fixes right after
> they apply it to the trunk, though.

I think they should. To my knowledge, nobody goes through the changelog
anymore trying to find out what needs backporting. Tracking what still
needs merging should happen in the bug tracker, by leaving the report
open until merging has been done. Every change that isn't immediately
merged and doesn't have an open issue just won't get merged at all.

Regards,
Martin