From 586c97f7b0aeac03370bdb300691e0092f87fc17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: techknowlogick Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:08:46 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] blog post about backporter (#260) anyone else who made edits to this post, please feel free to add your name to authors :) Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/blog/pulls/260 Reviewed-by: John Olheiser Reviewed-by: yardenshoham Reviewed-by: silverwind Co-authored-by: techknowlogick Co-committed-by: techknowlogick --- content/post/backports-to-the-future.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 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..95a18fb --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/backports-to-the-future.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +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 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 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.