We backport important fixes and improvements from the current master release to get them to our users faster.
We mostly consider bug fixes for back porting. Occasionally, important changes to the API can be backported to make it easier for developers to keep their apps working between major releases. If you think a pull request (PR) is relevant for the stable release, go through these steps:
Note
Before each patch release there is a freeze to be able to test everything as a whole without pulling in new changes. This freeze is announced on the owncloud-devel mailinglist. While this freeze is active a backport isn’t allowed and has to wait for the next patch release.
The QA team will try to reproduce all the issues with the X.Y.Z-next-maintenance milestone on the relevant release and verify it is fixed by the patch release (and doesn’t cause new problems). Once the patch release is out, the post-fix -next-maintenance is removed and a new -next-maintenance milestone is created for that series.