Dries Buytaert wrote:
On 08 Mar 2006, at 20:19, Derek Wright wrote:
As far as I am aware, all non-security/standards related issues for the 4.6/4.5 branch can be closed if they have been fixed in HEAD.
That is our current policy, indeed.
as a specific example, will this no longer be fixed?
http://drupal.org/node/49430 "Mysql 5 & db_rewrite_sql issue" (a patch to fix MySQL 5.0.12+ errors in taxonomy.module)
now that this has been committed:
http://drupal.org/node/51850 "nailing down db_rewrite_sql" (a patch that fixes db_rewrite_sql() to solve all of the JOIN ordering problems once and for all, and fixes the implicit JOIN in taxonomy.module also handled in the 4.6 patch listed above).
I still commit bugfixes to the DRUPAL-4-5 and DRUPAL-4-6 branch. These bugfixes are not limited to security problems. For proof, look at any of the release announcements in the Drupal 4.5 or Drupal 4.6 release series.
Right, but if you look at it you will find that many more fixes could have been applied had we had the manpower. WRT the mysql 5 issue: I personally am not inclined to fix it in 4.6 or 4.5, but I would fix it for the upcoming 4.7 branch if it existed today (since I've volunteered to be the maintainer). WRT features: We've neve made backports and I don't intend to change this. Cheers, Gerhard