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Note that author metadata recorded in the backport commit is the author of the backport commit, not the author of the original commit. Likewise the reviewers recorded in the commit message are the reviewers of the backport commit, not the reviewers of the original commit. If the author of the backport isn't Author in the project that the backport commit is created for, then the backport commit can be sponsored. In the case of a backport being sponsored, then the author will recorded as the author of the commit and the sponsor as the committer of the commit (just as for regular commits).

Backport Pull Requests

Skara features a way to declare a pull request to be a "backport pull request" in order to ease the creation of backport commits. A "backport pull request" is a pull request which title is of the form "Backport [0-9a-z]{40}", for example "Backport 5a526c1c5716f6d9a7fc94741bcdb2f424d342df". The hash represents the hash of the original commit that is being backported. When the Skara bots encounter a "backport pull request" then they will:

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