[libvirt] How you can help with maintenance releases

Hey all, As you're likely aware, I've been cutting maintenance releases of certain libvirt versions for the past six months: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases Since I'm not hugely involved with development these days, and things move pretty quick in libvirt land, I'd like to appeal to you fine gentleman for a bit of assistance here. None of this is mandatory, but hopefully it's low enough effort that I get a few bites :) Here's the gist: Next time you post a bug fix for an issue you can imagine someone actually hitting and filing a bug report about, consider doing one of the following: - Pushing the patch to the relevant maint branches - CCing me on the posting, with a note that this might be a maint candidate Of course, doing this for patches that someone else posts is completely fine with me too :) Take a look at the current branched versions and their original release dates: libvirt 0.9.6: Sep 22 2011 libvirt 0.9.11: Apr 3 2012 libvirt 0.10.2: September 24 2012 So if you find a bug in code that you know hasn't been touched for a year, it might be a candidate for all 3 branches! Jiri recently noticed this and cherry-picked a patch, (which was very much appreciated!): http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=bebe5122b9af50f0b25f47f3... http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=d325704a3fdf947fa862bf62... http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=77cecd2bc306416d985230bb... As an example of how to push a patch to a maintenance branch, say you want to backport master commit ab12cd34: git checkout --track remotes/origin/v0.10.2-maint git checkout v0.10.2-maint git cherry-pick -x ab12cd34 git push v0.10.2-maint If the cherry-pick doesn't apply cleanly, feel free to just CC me and I'll straighten it out. That's it! Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Cole