[development] Re: 18 critical bugs left

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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