[Skiboot] [PATCH] Update skiboot stable tree rules

Andrew Donnellan andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com
Tue Mar 5 17:53:00 AEDT 2019


On 5/3/19 5:06 pm, Vasant Hegde wrote:
> We have new mailing list (skiboot-stable at lists.ozlabs.org) for handling
> stable trees!
> 
> Now onwards to submit patches to stable tree, one should send patches to
> skiboot-stable at lists.ozlabs.org mailing list with subject prefix
> [PATH <stable-version>] -OR- CC skiboot-stable at lists.ozlabs.org mailing
> list while sending patches to upstream mailing list (skiboot at lists.ozlabs.org).
> 
> This will remove the requirement to do the --suppress-cc OR other related
> --no-cc-* options from git-send-email to remove "CC" list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   doc/process/stable-skiboot-rules.rst | 12 +++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/process/stable-skiboot-rules.rst b/doc/process/stable-skiboot-rules.rst
> index c0d4362c1..570bb70ed 100644
> --- a/doc/process/stable-skiboot-rules.rst
> +++ b/doc/process/stable-skiboot-rules.rst
> @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ What patches are accepted?
>   HOWTO submit to stable
>   ----------------------
>   Two ways:
> -1. Send patch to the skiboot@ list with "[PATCH stable]" in subject
> +1. Send patch to the skiboot-stable at lists.ozlabs.org list with
> +   "[PATCH <stable version>]" in subject
>   
>      * This targets the patch *ONLY* to the stable branch.

If we're not going to send stable-targeted patches to the main skiboot 
list, we're going to want to make sure this is announced very, very 
loudly so everyone actually subscribes to skiboot-stable...

>   
> @@ -50,18 +51,19 @@ Two ways:
>          commit <sha1> upstream.
>      * If the patch has been modified, explain why in description.
>   
> -2. Add "Cc: stable" above your Signed-off-by line when sending to skiboot@
> +2. Add "Cc: skiboot-stable at lists.ozlabs.org" above your Signed-off-by line
> +   when sending to skiboot@
>   
>      * This targets the patch to master and stable.
>      * You can target a patch to a specific stable tree with: ::
>   
> -      Cc: stable # 5.1.x
> +      Cc: skiboot-stable at lists.ozlabs.org # 5.1.x
>   
>        and that will target it to the 5.1.x branch.
>      * You can ask for prerequisites to be cherry-picked: ::
>   
> -        Cc: stable # 5.1.x 55ae15b Ensure we run pollers in cpu_wait_job()
> -        Cc: stable # 5.1.x
> +        Cc: skiboot-stable at lists.ozlabs.org # 5.1.x 55ae15b Ensure we run pollers in cpu_wait_job()
> +        Cc: skiboot-stable at lists.ozlabs.org # 5.1.x
>   
>        Which means:
>   
> 

-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited



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