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 2020EAAEB for ; Wed, 16 May 2018 21:45:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F016F7D858; Wed, 16 May 2018 19:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ktraynor.remote.csb (ovpn-117-234.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.234]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC7A2166BAD; Wed, 16 May 2018 19:45:49 +0000 (UTC) To: luca.boccassi@gmail.com, dev@dpdk.org Cc: yliu@fridaylinux.org, thomas@monjalon.net, Luca Boccassi References: <20180516143134.24838-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com> <20180516170538.21784-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com> From: Kevin Traynor Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 20:45:48 +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: <20180516170538.21784-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.6 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.2]); Wed, 16 May 2018 19:45:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.2]); Wed, 16 May 2018 19:45:51 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.6' DOMAIN:'int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'ktraynor@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: advise to specify LTS branch when backporting patches 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: Wed, 16 May 2018 19:45:52 -0000 On 05/16/2018 06:05 PM, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote: > From: Luca Boccassi > > We have many stable branches being maintained at the same time, and > sometimes it's not clear which branch a patch is being backported for. > Note in the guidelines that it should be specified via the cover letter, > annotation or using --subject-prefix. > Also note to send only to stable@dpdk.org, not dev@dpdk.org. > Acked-by: Kevin Traynor > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi > --- > > v2: hint that --subject-prefix is required, fix typos > > doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst > index 2287835f9..47c41288e 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst > @@ -450,6 +450,14 @@ Experienced committers may send patches directly with ``git send-email`` without > The options ``--annotate`` and ``confirm = always`` are recommended for checking patches before sending. > > > +Backporting patches for Stable Releases > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > + > +Sometimes a maintainer or contributor wishes, or can be asked, to send a patch for a stable release rather than mainline. In this case the patch(es) should be sent to ``stable@dpdk.org``, not to ``dev@dpdk.org``. > + > +Given that there are multiple stable releases being maintained at the same time, please specify exactly which branch(es) the patch is for using ``git send-email --subject-prefix='16.11' ...`` and also optionally in the cover letter or in the annotation. > + > + > The Review Process > ------------------ > >