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date: "2023-04-19T10:10:00+00:00"
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author: "techknowlogick"
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title: "Back(ports) to the future!"
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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.
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Manual backports possible, just arduous, doubly so in the context of a potential LTS. > was to be able to efficiently backport pull requests
Manual backports possible, just arduous, doubly so in the context of a potential LTS.
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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.
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> [...] created a tool to help automate backports.
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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.
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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.
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As well, with the tool being open source it has allowed others to provide enhancements.
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I sort of want to make the quip about automating us out of a job, but maybe not in this post. 😁 I sort of want to make the quip about automating us out of a job, but maybe not in this post. 😁
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Feel free to check it out [here](https://github.com/GiteaBot/gitea-backporter).
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Not a big deal, I just vaguely recall something about not using "here" for links. > Feel free to check out [the repo](https://github.com/GiteaBot/gitea-backporter).
Not a big deal, I just vaguely recall something about not using "here" for links.
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You might even want to adapt and use it for your own (open source) project.
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