Quoting Emil Velikov (2018-09-21 08:47:30) > On 21 September 2018 at 08:19, Juan A. Suarez Romero > <jasua...@igalia.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 20:16 +0200, Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:33 PM Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@intel.com> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > On Thursday, 2018-09-20 19:17:57 +0200, Bas Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >> > > Was missing the init, found by Emil. > >> > > > >> > > Fixes: d17443a4593 "radv: Use build ID if available for cache UUID." > >> > > >> > Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@intel.com> > >> > > >> > > CC: <mesa-sta...@lists.freedesktop.org> > >> > > >> > Cc'ing mesa-stable has no effect when you're already adding the > >> > proper Fixes: tag :) > >> > >> Last time I asked about the difference between Fixes and CC, the > >> conclusion I got that Fixes is only best effort for the stable > >> branches and that if it does not apply it will be dropped silently, > >> while for the CC ones the release manager will notify you. > >> > > > > In previous releases that was the way it worked: we always our best effort > > to > > apply CC and Fixes patches. The difference was that if we couldn't apply the > > patch, then we were only notifying in the pre-announcement "Rejected" > > section > > about the CC, and silently ignoring the Fixes. > > > > > > But nowadays, we notify about all the candidates to stable, which are CC and > > Fixes. > > > Here is an alternative wording, hopefully it will make things clearer: > > Both CC and Fixes work and having both does not hurt. > > Fixes provides clear indication when/where the problem originates. > Cc _explicitly_ requests the patch to be in stable - that's why we > have the list + late nominations. > > It _explicit_ nomination does _not_ apply then the nominator is informed. > > -Emil
Yeah, that's not useful. We don't need a "you can put this in if you want but don't tell me if you didn't". Either it's nominated or it's not. If Fixes: doesn't mean "I want this in any stable branch with commit X" then we should stop using the tag. Dylan
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