Proposal: 1.8 release and development process changes

[drago01]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Dave Airlie's message of Sun Sep 27 15:37:14 -0700 2009:
>
>> make a 1.6-nominate branch, let everyone cherrypick onto it, the 1.6
>> maintainers reviews this branch, picks what they want off it and
>> *reverts* with explanations the ones they don't.
>
> Yeah, that seems pretty nifty. One issue is that non-committers can't
> nominate patches as easily. I don't have a good suggestion here other
> than adding those to either the wiki or bugzilla. I found the wiki
> easier to deal with than bugzilla, although I should have made a spot
> to put comments about patches which were not included.

What about using git-bz ?
http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/11/16/git-bz-bugzilla-subcommand-for-git/