Hi Stefano,
On 10/04/2020 17:49, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
Create a new document under docs/process to describe our special tags.
For now, only add the new backport tag.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <w...@xen.org>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgr...@amazon.com>
It would be good to get an ack by from Jan as he is the maintainer for
stable's branch.
Cheers,
CC: jbeul...@suse.com
CC: george.dun...@citrix.com
CC: jul...@xen.org
CC: lars.ku...@citrix.com
CC: andrew.coop...@citrix.com
CC: konrad.w...@oracle.com
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This is the original thread: https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=157324027614941
The backport tag was agreed upon. George requested the file to be
renamed to something more generic, where we could add more information
later.
I kept the original content and acked-by. I renamed the file to
tags.pandoc.
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docs/process/tags.pandoc | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 docs/process/tags.pandoc
diff --git a/docs/process/tags.pandoc b/docs/process/tags.pandoc
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+Backport Tag
+------------
+
+A backport tag is an optional tag in the commit message to request a
+given commit to be backported to the stable trees:
+
+ Backport: all
+
+It marks a commit for being a candidate for backports to all relevant
+trees.
+
+ Backport: 4.9+
+
+It marks a commit for being a candidate for backports to all stable
+trees from 4.9 onward.
+
+Maintainers request the Backport tag to be added on commit.
+Contributors are also welcome to mark their patches with the Backport
+tag when they deem appropriate. Maintainers will request for it to be
+removed when that is not the case.
+
+Please note that the Backport tag is a **request** for backport, which
+will still need to be evaluated by the stable tree maintainers.
--
Julien Grall
