Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] maintainers: add stable mailing list

[Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>]

On 12/05/2016 05:36 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 04:36:36PM +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 7:07 AM
>>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>>> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>; Mcnamara, John
>>> <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
>>> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] maintainers: add stable mailing list
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>  MAINTAINERS | 1 +
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>>> index 3df1754..076e86c 100644
>>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>>> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ F: scripts/test-build.sh  Stable Branches
>>>  ---------------
>>>  T: git://dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
>>> +M: stable@dpdk.org
>>
>> I acked this previously but looking at it again I'm not 100% sure that stable@dpdk.org
>> should be the maintainer.
>>
>> The glossary at the top of the file says:
>>
>>     Descriptions of section entries:
>>         M: Maintainer's Full Name <address@domain>
>>
>> So maybe the entry should have your name and also stable@dpdk.org on a separate line.
>> This would be clearer way of showing the stable release tree maintainer.
>
> I actually just meant to add the stable mailing list addr (as the
> subject says). Seems there are no such field for it?
"L: stable@dpdk.org" ?

This is how MLs are added in Kernel's MAINTAINER file.

Cheers,
Maxime

>
> 	--yliu
>