On 20/03/2025 12:12 pm, Jan Beulich wrote:
> For many major releases I've been updating ./MAINTAINERS _after_ the
> respective branch was handed over to me. That update, however, is
> relevant not only from the .1 minor release onwards, but right from the
> .0 release. Hence it ought to be done as one of the last things before
> tagging the tree for the new major release.
>
> See the seemingly unrelated parts (as far as the commit subject goes) of
> e.g. 9d465658b405 ("update Xen version to 4.20.1-pre") for an example.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> ---
> As can also be seen from the referenced commit, the document already
> saying "drop any references to the specific commits, e.g. date or title"
> hasn't been honored in recent releases, at least as far as
> QEMU_TRADITIONAL_REVISION goes.Oh, lovely. I wasn't even aware there was a necessary change like this. Also, I haven't made as much progress rewriting the checklist as I would have liked, so it is probably best to insert into this doc for now. The qemu-trad comments I think we can just strip out of staging. We don't have equivalent comments for the other trees. I'm not sure if it's useful to delete the check-in policy. I think the note at the top listing the backport maintainers is good enough. ~Andrew
