[Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] MAINTAINERS: Reference stable maintenance policy

[Xen patchbot-unstable <patchbot@xxxxxxx>]

# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1354787813 -3600
# Node ID 53805e238cca849e0751db9bff575c854992af21
# Parent  85ea612be837c6e765dce2de44c8aa874af79f3c
MAINTAINERS: Reference stable maintenance policy

I also couldn't resist fixing a typo and adding a reference to
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches for the normal case as
well.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Committed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
---


diff -r 85ea612be837 -r 53805e238cca MAINTAINERS
--- a/MAINTAINERS       Thu Dec 06 09:22:31 2012 +0000
+++ b/MAINTAINERS       Thu Dec 06 10:56:53 2012 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 
        List of maintainers and how to submit changes
+       =============================================
 
 Please try to follow the guidelines below.  This will make things
 easier on the maintainers.  Not all of these guidelines matter for every
@@ -15,7 +16,11 @@ 3.   Make a patch available to the relevan
        'diff -u' to make the patch easy to merge. Be prepared to get your
        changes sent back with seemingly silly requests about formatting
        and variable names.  These aren't as silly as they seem. One
-       job the maintainersdo is to keep things looking the same.
+       job the maintainers do is to keep things looking the same.
+
+       PLEASE see http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches for
+       hints on how to submit a patch to xen-unstable in a suitable
+       form.
 
        PLEASE try to include any credit lines you want added with the
        patch. It avoids people being missed off by mistake and makes
@@ -34,6 +39,23 @@ 4.   Make sure you have the right to send 
 
 5.     Happy hacking.
 
+
+       Stable Release Maintenance
+       ==========================
+
+The policy for inclusion in a Xen stable release is different to that
+for inclusion in xen-unstable.
+
+Please see http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Maintenance_Releases for more
+information.
+
+Remember to copy the appropriate stable branch maintainer who will be
+listed in this section of the MAINTAINERS file in the appropriate
+branch.
+
+       Unstable Subsystem Maintainers
+       ==============================
+
 Descriptions of section entries:
 
        M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>

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