commit b56985f02294ec7c087c457ed17c658e9ea32eb0 Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> Date: Tue Aug 11 17:58:11 2020 -0400 CodingStandards.md: allow "bugfix on all supported versions. Closes tpo/core/team#1 . --- doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md b/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md index 1411ff408a..cd3417d0b5 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md +++ b/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md @@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ tor-0.3.1.10 ... ``` +If a bug was introduced before the oldest currently supported release series +of Tor, and it's hard to track down where it was introduced, you may say +"bugfix on all supported versions of Tor." + If at all possible, try to create the changes file in the same commit where you are making the change. Please give it a distinctive name that no other branch will use for the lifetime of your change. We usually use "ticketNNNNN"