My department regularly branches our main trunk into a long living branch, to support customers with small change requests, that don't want to take on the risk of a new major release from the main trunk.  Our main trunk is constantly carrying forward 150-300 defects open in the backlog.  When we branch, we never clone those defects.I'm arguing now that as an automated part of branching the trunk for a long lived branch, we should clone all open defects (linking them to parent).  I would like to know what the general consensus is for doing this.FWIW, we are using TFS currently, and switching to Jira in the next 6 months.
What is the best practice regarding cloning defects when branch a code base?
branching