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.kovace...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>
---
doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index 59d2aaf..cef9776 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -277,6 +277,23 @@ body of the commit message. For example::
Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.sm...@example.com>
+Patch for Stable Releases:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+All fix patches to the master branch that are candidates for backporting
+should also be CCed to the `sta...@dpdk.org
<http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/stable>`_
+mailing list. In the commit message body the Cc: sta...@dpdk.org should be
inserted as follows::
+
+ doc: fix some parameter description
+
+ Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
+
+ Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
+ Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
+
+ Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.sm...@example.com>
+
+For further information on stable contribution you can go here :doc:`Stable
Contribution<stable>`
Creating Patches
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2.9.5
