[vtk-developers] gerrit bug fix backports

[Berk Geveci]

This is a good discussion. I'd like to see what people think. In the past,
we haven't put a lot effort into maintaining two versions but given the
larger change between 5 and 6, it might be justified to spend some cycles
maintaining 5 for a while. I'd like to hear what people think about how
long and how.

-berk


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:48 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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