Change 33474
Formalize Hot Fix vs.
Emergency Bug Fix policy for direct patches to main/release streams.
Clarifies that dev -> main -> release is the preferred, natural flow but not
a rigid one-way gate: direct patches at developer discretion are allowed,
generally limited to doc/web-page-only content (a Hot Fix, no Version/tarball
impact since that content is isolate'd per stream) but not absolutely
restricted to that. Introduces Emergency Bug Fix as the distinct, exceptional
case where actual shipped software is patched directly in an already-cut
release stream -- the one non-negotiable rule being that any such change
requires bumping that stream's own Version file and republishing its
tarball, so Version and the tarball never drift out of sync. Updates the
SDP_DeveloperGuide.adoc Terminology section and adds a new 'Hot Fixes and
Emergency Bug Fixes' section to ReleaseProcessOverview.md. Supersedes the
old SDP_DeveloperGuide.adoc Hot Fix definition, which described release-
stream patching in terms that didn't match the actual established flow.
Agent: Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5), via Claude Code.
Emergency Bug Fix policy for direct patches to main/release streams.
Clarifies that dev -> main -> release is the preferred, natural flow but not
a rigid one-way gate: direct patches at developer discretion are allowed,
generally limited to doc/web-page-only content (a Hot Fix, no Version/tarball
impact since that content is isolate'd per stream) but not absolutely
restricted to that. Introduces Emergency Bug Fix as the distinct, exceptional
case where actual shipped software is patched directly in an already-cut
release stream -- the one non-negotiable rule being that any such change
requires bumping that stream's own Version file and republishing its
tarball, so Version and the tarball never drift out of sync. Updates the
SDP_DeveloperGuide.adoc Terminology section and adds a new 'Hot Fixes and
Emergency Bug Fixes' section to ReleaseProcessOverview.md. Supersedes the
old SDP_DeveloperGuide.adoc Hot Fix definition, which described release-
stream patching in terms that didn't match the actual established flow.
Agent: Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5), via Claude Code.