Added contribution guideline for adding tags
when sending patches that have been raised by
coverity
Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovace...@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index 64408e7..e6b6e80 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -257,6 +257,26 @@ tags for who reported, suggested, tested and reviewed the
patch being
posted. Please refer to the `Tested, Acked and Reviewed by`_ section.
+Coverity Related Patch Fixes:
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+`Coverity
<https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit>`_ is a
gratis
+static-analysis cloud-based service for the open source community. It is a
tool for
+C,C++,C# and Java it is used for finding bugs through static analysis. If a
patch
+fix is being sent to the mailing list due to a Coverity related issue,a
+Coverity issue tag should be inserted into the commit message body as so::
+
+ doc: fix some parameter description
+
+ Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
+
+ Coverity issue: 12345
+ Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
+ Cc: aut...@example.com
+
+ Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.sm...@example.com>
+
+
Creating Patches
----------------
--
2.9.5
