Re: [PATCH] process/release: mention MAINTAINER adjustments

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan,

On 20/03/2025 13:45, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 20.03.2025 13:47, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > On 20/03/2025 12:12 pm, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > For many major releases I've been updating ./MAINTAINERS _after_ the
> > > respective branch was handed over to me. That update, however, is
> > > relevant not only from the .1 minor release onwards, but right from the
> > > .0 release. Hence it ought to be done as one of the last things before
> > > tagging the tree for the new major release.
> > >
> > > See the seemingly unrelated parts (as far as the commit subject goes) of
> > > e.g. 9d465658b405 ("update Xen version to 4.20.1-pre") for an example.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > As can also be seen from the referenced commit, the document already
> > > saying "drop any references to the specific commits, e.g. date or title"
> > > hasn't been honored in recent releases, at least as far as
> > > QEMU_TRADITIONAL_REVISION goes.
> > Oh, lovely.  I wasn't even aware there was a necessary change like
> > this.  Also, I haven't made as much progress rewriting the checklist as
> > I would have liked, so it is probably best to insert into this doc for now.
> >
> > The qemu-trad comments I think we can just strip out of staging.  We
> > don't have equivalent comments for the other trees.
> Right, I was wondering what else might be stale there.
There are a few more things [1] that are still waiting for a review... I 
think there might be other from Andrew as well which needs to be 
respinned/committed.
Although, I don't think we had one for QEMU trad.

Cheers,

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20241206194025.31662-3-julien@xxxxxxx/

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Julien Grall