I take care of the backport releases. There was no rule set yet. First with FC 0.19.3 I implemented the following system:
- the first post in this thread lists all commits and PRs that have been backported or should be. Every developer change change the list to keep it up to date.
- to declare a PR or commit to be backported, please report it in this thread as new post. Then the developers have a look if this can be backported or not.
- only if something cannot be backported and if it is an important bugfix (crash etc.) we note it in the release notes
- the goal is to backport all bugfixes if possible.
- new features or improvements of features won't be backported
It works so far in my opinion. If you have proposals to improve it, every idea is welcome.