On 02/12/2018 06:40 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
Some pointers on how to get a patch into stable.
[contains some suggestions by mdroth]
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com>
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RFC/D->v2: added mdroth's suggestions
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+ Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org
+
+ to the patch description. By default, this will send a copy of the patch
Spurious double space.
+ to ``qemu-sta...@nongnu.org`` if you use git send-email, which is where
+ patches that are stable candidates are tracked by the maintainers.
+
+Stable release process
+----------------------
+
+When the stable maintainers prepare a new stable release, they will prepare
+a git branch with a release candidate and send the patches out to
+``qemu-devel@nongnu.org`` for review. If any of your patches are included,
+please verify that they look fine.
Maybe add: especially if the maintainer had to tweak the patch as part
of back-porting things across branches.
You may also nominate other patches that
+you think are suitable for inclusion. After review is complete (may involve
+more release candidates), a new stable release is made available.
What you have is an obvious improvement over the "nothing" that was
before, so whether or not you fold in my additional comments, you can add:
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
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