From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30721BE19 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2018 01:15:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 542554106D35; Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:15:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ktraynor.remote.csb (ovpn-117-152.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.152]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F242026D68; Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:15:42 +0000 (UTC) To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, bluca@debian.org, yskoh@mellanox.com, christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com, dev@dpdk.org, aconole@redhat.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com References: <1529596827-14756-1-git-send-email-ktraynor@redhat.com> <1530308851-30496-1-git-send-email-ktraynor@redhat.com> <9109842.NZQjWO3Re5@xps> From: Kevin Traynor Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: <67d59ac7-443b-1b97-cb01-a93302fa1023@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:15:41 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9109842.NZQjWO3Re5@xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.4 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.5]); Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:15:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.5]); Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:15:44 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.4' DOMAIN:'int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'ktraynor@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] docs: add default that all fixes should be backported X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:15:45 -0000 On 06/29/2018 11:02 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 29/06/2018 23:47, Kevin Traynor: >> -Backporting should be limited to bug fixes. >> +Backporting should be limited to bug fixes. All patches accepted on the master >> +branch with Fixes tags should be backported to the relevant stable/LTS branches, >> +unless the submitter indicates otherwise. If there are exceptions, they will be >> +discussed on the mailing lists. >> >> Features should not be backported to stable releases. It may be acceptable, in >> @@ -77,5 +80,6 @@ list. >> All fix patches to the master branch that are candidates for backporting >> should also be CCed to the `stable@dpdk.org `_ >> -mailing list. >> +mailing list. Absence of this CC is an indication that the patch is not suitable >> +for backporting. > > We should mention that it is not a matter of Cc'ing the dpdk-stable ML, > but more importantly, a tag which remains in the git history: > Cc: stable@dpdk.org > > Yes, you are right - fixed that in v3. The format is mentioned in patches.rst, but it's small so I added here to be complete.