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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH STABLE] MAINTAINERS: Reference stable maintenance policy



>>> On 27.11.12 at 17:01, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> # Date 1354032095 0
> # Node ID 5f1ad53a35724ee4b7d8500447f07c466987c56d
> # Parent  5c5c695863f73bd6a9eccaaa96cf28800e50e840
> 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>
> ---
> This version is for 4.2 and 4.1 and is modified from the unstable
> version to mention Jan as maintainer of both branches.

Thanks Ian, I'll apply this as soon as I see the respective variant
show up in -unstable.

Jan

> diff -r 5c5c695863f7 -r 5f1ad53a3572 MAINTAINERS
> --- a/MAINTAINERS     Tue Nov 27 13:25:17 2012 +0100
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS     Tue Nov 27 16:01:35 2012 +0000
> @@ -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 +39,28 @@ 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 stable branch maintainer. The maintainer for this
> +branch is:
> +
> +     Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> +
> +Tools backport requests should also be copied to:
> +
> +     Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +
> +     Unstable Subsystem Maintainers
> +     ==============================
> +
>  Descriptions of section entries:
>  
>       M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>




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