> If you need something in an older version of the the platform fixed and
> that fix does not apply in the current version (say because something
> deprecated has been removed) you need to submit a fix to the downstream
> application that is using that version (of which CMS 2.5 is an example).
> Note that the CMS will only take a bug fix not a new feature since 2.5 is
> a LTS release.
> If you need a fix to an older version that would also apply to the current
> version send a pull request to the current platform and put it in the CMS
> tracker with a link and say that it is needed in 2.5 as well as trunk (and
> explain why it is a bug fix not a feature). You'll need to make a
> separate pull request for the fix against the CMS 2.5 branch.
> As you can see by both trackers both projects are failing to keep up with
> bug fixes and improvements for their current trunks and for the CMS folks
> maintaining 2 branches (technically 3 really right now) is incredibly
> challenging. It's hard to overestimate the amount of time and energy that
> takes.
> The platform also doesn't have a triaging/prioritizing/testing/code review
> process the way the CMS does (but it has automated tests which are a big
> advantage, they just can't do the other pieces) which means the people who
> do serious code review are also doing user error issue closing and requests
> for information which is time consuming and why issues without code are
> essentially meaningless to submit on the platform but not on the CMS.
> So it just does not make practical sense to have two platform releases
> under maintenance since it would only make these things worse than they are
> already.
> Elin
> On Friday, August 24, 2012 9:00:26 AM UTC-4, Thomas PAPIN wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to understand how the maintenance of the platform is
>> performed on GIT.
>> Currently Joomla 2.5 is using 11.4 and Joomla 3.0 is using 12.1.
>> Will Joomla 2.5 always used 11.X, or is it possible that 2.5 will used
>> 12.X version ?
>> If we found an issue on Joomla 2.5 (11.4), how to submit a pull request,
>> on the staging branch on joomla platform repository based on 11.X ?
>> For my understanding, there are only 2 branches, master and staging. Both
>> contains the 12.X version, 11.X is only accessible via a tag. there is no
>> branch 11.X. so how to submit a pull request on 11.X platform ?
>> I was thinking to found 2 branches, master-12 and master-11, to be able
>> to work on the two versions of the platform
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
