[vtk-developers] gerrit bug fix backports

[David Gobbi]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Dean Inglis <inglis.dl at gmail.com> wrote:
> A software project I am working on is being developed with the vtk 5.10.1
> release branch. 3 bugs in that branch reported by our group were addressed
> using gerrit (Iccc5a316, I561346c4, Ifbea52c2).
> We are currently using customized copies of the involved classes
> in our code but would like to use the original (fixed) vtk classes.  Is
> there a process
> for backporting bug fixes to previous releases?  What is Kitware's policy on
> bug fix backports to existing release branches?

I'm curious about this, too.  Right now all of my apps are still based
on VTK 5 and I don't intend to move them over to VTK 6 until around
VTK 6.2 or so.  I have a few local patches for VTK 5, all backports of
bug fixes, but right now there is nowhere for them to go.

 David