How do base commits get released?

[George Plymale II]

Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> writes:

> These tags point to commits on the release-2.5 branch. The release
> branch is created when master is deemed to be stable. Afterwards,
> changes from master will only be backported (with git cherry-pick) to
> release branches when we need them in a release, for example bug fixes.
>
> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/tree/release-2.5

Got it. Thanks for adding the extra specificity; I suspected
cherry-picking was used and it makes even more sense now.

> The release process documentation is kept in the macports-base repository:
>
> https://github.com/macports/macports-base/blob/master/portmgr/ReleaseProcess.md

Doh! Thanks for pointing me to that. Great document and I'm embarrassed
that I didn't already see it.

Thanks,
- George Plymale II