From d4d2dc6ed62f5c7502f7a2dba844635d788de4fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: techknowlogick Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:15:46 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] blog post about backporter --- content/post/backports-to-the-future.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/post/backports-to-the-future.md diff --git a/content/post/backports-to-the-future.md b/content/post/backports-to-the-future.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bcf260 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/backports-to-the-future.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +date: "2023-04-19T10:10:00+00:00" +author: "techknowlogick" +title: "Back(ports) to the future!" +draft: false +--- + +In working towards maintaining an LTS version of Gitea, one of the blockers was to be able to backport pull requests, for bug fixes and other changes. +One of Gitea's maintainers, [yardenshoham](https://github.com/yardenshoham), in an effort to improve their development workflow created a tool to allow automation to create backports. +A side-effect of this effort is that this tool can not only be used to backport just for his pull-requests, but most pull requests that need a backport too. + +We are enormously thankful for his effort in creating this tool, as it has allowed numerous (a few hundred at last count) backports, and increased development velocity. +As well, with the tool being open source it has allowed others to provide enhancements. + +Feel free to check it out [here](https://github.com/GiteaBot/gitea-backporter). +You might even want to adapt and use it for your own (open source) project. -- 2.40.1 From 85f283bbdd42d81c63f738932c66b15c7ac18a20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: techknowlogick Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:31:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update with feedback --- content/post/backports-to-the-future.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/post/backports-to-the-future.md b/content/post/backports-to-the-future.md index 0bcf260..95a18fb 100644 --- a/content/post/backports-to-the-future.md +++ b/content/post/backports-to-the-future.md @@ -2,15 +2,16 @@ date: "2023-04-19T10:10:00+00:00" author: "techknowlogick" title: "Back(ports) to the future!" +tags: ["backporter"] draft: false --- -In working towards maintaining an LTS version of Gitea, one of the blockers was to be able to backport pull requests, for bug fixes and other changes. -One of Gitea's maintainers, [yardenshoham](https://github.com/yardenshoham), in an effort to improve their development workflow created a tool to allow automation to create backports. +In working towards maintaining an LTS version of Gitea, one of the blockers was to be able to efficiently backport pull requests, for bug fixes and other changes. +One of Gitea's maintainers, [yardenshoham](https://github.com/yardenshoham), in an effort to improve their development workflow created a tool to help automate backports. A side-effect of this effort is that this tool can not only be used to backport just for his pull-requests, but most pull requests that need a backport too. We are enormously thankful for his effort in creating this tool, as it has allowed numerous (a few hundred at last count) backports, and increased development velocity. As well, with the tool being open source it has allowed others to provide enhancements. -Feel free to check it out [here](https://github.com/GiteaBot/gitea-backporter). +Feel free to check out [the backporter repo](https://github.com/GiteaBot/gitea-backporter). You might even want to adapt and use it for your own (open source) project. -- 2.40.1