[9.0] chore: added sweep rule

[fstagni]

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[aldbr]

I thought that only specific patches would go from integration to rel-v9r0, am I wrong? That would force us to test them well before going into rel-v9r0, which is expected to stay very stable.
Shall we let people target v9 first before integration? (because it sounds that this sweep rule would allow that)

[fstagni]

We are "done", I hope, with backportings.

The pattern should stay:

• work on integration for most of things
• target v9r0 for urgent bug fixes for the "lily pad" release. These bug fixes normally should be swept to integration.

[sfayer]

Hi,

I think like @aldbr, I was kinda expecting the sweep to go the other way... i.e. development all happens on integration and very specific patches may get specially[*] marked as sweepable to be merged back into the rel-v9r0 branch? (Rather than encouraging people to develop against v9.0 and then forward-port).

Regards,
Simon

[*] e.g. the tag would be something like sweep:include on special stuff and the default "no tag" behaviour would be sweep:ignore (so unless you actively want backporting you don't have to think/worry about it).

[fstagni]

I am trying to ease your way when the "inevitable" patch will need to be applied to v9. Otherwise we just remove completely the sweeper.

[chaen]

I think we should remove the sweeper. Every development goes to integration, and is backported manually

[fstagni]

Fine for me!