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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Doubts regarding bug report submission

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:37:54 -0600
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:40:54AM +0530, Krishnamurthy Mayya wrote:

>  I saw a message saying that 6382,6383,6384 and 6388,6389,6390 are 
> duplicate bugs. We are sorry for that. Since we did not know whether 
> to submit in the SVN repository or 1.7.x, both of us just submitted it 
> listing individually.

All development happens to the SVN repository and certain bug fixes are 
backported to previous versions.  See these pages for more details on 
how development is done:

	http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle
	http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Roadmap