[Development] Finishing the transition to the cherry-pick model

[Edward Welbourne]

Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
>>> 1) we will shut down the forward-merging bot next week
>>> ....
>>> 3) we will turn on the cherry-picking bot for all repositories
>>>
>>> Expect this to happen in early May, but probaly not at the same time for all
>>> repos. We will update the commit template to include a commented out “Pick-
>>> to” footer.

On 17 Apr 2020, at 14:26, Alex Blasche <alexander.blasche at qt.io> wrote:
>> Why would we accept a gap period during which the forward merging is
>> already off and the cherry-picking bot is not yet on?

Volker Hilsheimer (17 April 2020 14:59)
> Orchestrating the transition so that there is no gap at all introduces
> a huge amount of complexity without any gain. The gap has no practical
> impact. As long as we merge (no matter how), stuff committed directly
> to 5.15 will reach dev this way. It might take a bit longer than usual
> once we do it manually, but a merge taking a few days or even weeks is
> not unusual today either.
>
> We merge manually during the transition period, which gives us more
> control. By the time we stop merging manually, the cherry-pick bot
> will be in place.

Will changes committed to dev with Pick-To headers, before the 'bot is
switched on, get picked back to other branches once the 'bot *is*
switched on ?

	Eddy.