[Skiboot] [PATCH] Update skiboot stable tree rules

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Wed Mar 6 09:21:07 AEDT 2019


Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> 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...

I guess we could also say "cc to skiboot-stable@" ?

The aim is to have things be easy for Vasant to manage stable branches,
but also need to make sure things are easy for people to submit things.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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