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[dpdk-dev,v2,2/2] doc: add guidelines for stable tags

Message ID 20180110145200.13895-2-marko.kovacevic@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Kovacevic, Marko Jan. 10, 2018, 2:52 p.m. UTC 
  Added contribution guideline for adding stable
   tags when sending patches all fix patches to the
   master branch that are candidates for backporting

Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
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 doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

Comments

Hemant Agrawal Jan. 15, 2018, 3:26 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 1/10/2018 8:22 PM, Marko Kovacevic wrote:
>    Added contribution guideline for adding stable
>    tags when sending patches all fix patches to the
>    master branch that are candidates for backporting
>
> Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>

Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>

<snip>..
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diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index e6b6e80..124dade 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -276,6 +276,23 @@  Coverity issue tag should be inserted into the commit message body as so::
 
      Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@example.com>
 
+Patch for Stable Releases:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+All fix patches to the master branch that are candidates for backporting
+should also be CCed to the `stable@dpdk.org <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/stable>`_
+mailing list. In the commit message body the Cc: stable@dpdk.org should be inserted as so::
+
+     doc: fix some parameter description
+
+     Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
+
+     Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
+     Cc: stable@dpdk.org
+
+     Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@example.com>
+
+For further information on stable contribution you can go here :doc:`Stable Contribution<stable>`
 
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