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

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 05.12.12 at 11:05, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 15:54 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> # Date 1354031669 0
>> # Node ID 1c8fa0e2583b409ca7d45cefa9eaff0127c28ee9
>> # Parent  ae6fb202b233af815466055d9f1a635802a50855
>> 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>
> 
> Any objections/acks to this patch? Shall I commit it?

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

(but formally you need Keir's ack anyway)

>> diff -r ae6fb202b233 -r 1c8fa0e2583b MAINTAINERS
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS    Tue Nov 20 08:58:31 2012 +0100
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS    Tue Nov 27 15:54:29 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 +39,23 @@ 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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