From patchwork Fri Apr 10 16:49:42 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Stefano Stabellini X-Patchwork-Id: 11483451 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72B415AB for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACE5D20769 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="uA+q4ygf" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org ACE5D20769 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1jMwqm-0007Lk-LN; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:49:52 +0000 Received: from all-amaz-eas1.inumbo.com ([34.197.232.57] helo=us1-amaz-eas2.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1jMwql-0007Lf-3A for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:49:51 +0000 X-Inumbo-ID: 4a0bc00c-7b4b-11ea-845b-12813bfff9fa Received: from mail.kernel.org (unknown [198.145.29.99]) by us1-amaz-eas2.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 4a0bc00c-7b4b-11ea-845b-12813bfff9fa; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:49:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sstabellini-ThinkPad-T480s.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (c-67-164-102-47.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.164.102.47]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EB7E720769; Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:49:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1586537389; bh=NMyKX9Vm5M/+ytGCVt+HkWqn+19KHLHUeuCyTsgRHlM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=uA+q4ygfO0274XjDCULhgww7Ac4ysWw4MHcR/hQfhkRuq39SjMsSKBYjyKa1HNB5X qRHi2GqI7UhsB6vF0QWRUfXAWgxM4r2fYGPcBtgeNWtuj1QPs2uvgxbsM5ZrIwWN2t CWfgdyx8sJVebVYxInki81zZQNrli/Uf1/qcjwqE= From: Stefano Stabellini To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Subject: [PATCH v2] Introduce a description of a new optional tag for Backports Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:49:42 -0700 Message-Id: <20200410164942.9747-1-sstabellini@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.1 X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: lars.kurth@citrix.com, sstabellini@kernel.org, julien@xen.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, george.dunlap@citrix.com, jbeulich@suse.com, Stefano Stabellini Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Sender: "Xen-devel" Create a new document under docs/process to describe our special tags. For now, only add the new backport tag. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini Acked-by: Ian Jackson Acked-by: Wei Liu CC: jbeulich@suse.com CC: george.dunlap@citrix.com CC: julien@xen.org CC: lars.kurth@citrix.com CC: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com CC: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Acked-by: Julien Grall --- This is the original thread: https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=157324027614941 The backport tag was agreed upon. George requested the file to be renamed to something more generic, where we could add more information later. I kept the original content and acked-by. I renamed the file to tags.pandoc. --- docs/process/tags.pandoc | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/process/tags.pandoc diff --git a/docs/process/tags.pandoc b/docs/process/tags.pandoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e570efdcc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/process/tags.pandoc @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Backport Tag +------------ + +A backport tag is an optional tag in the commit message to request a +given commit to be backported to the stable trees: + + Backport: all + +It marks a commit for being a candidate for backports to all relevant +trees. + + Backport: 4.9+ + +It marks a commit for being a candidate for backports to all stable +trees from 4.9 onward. + +Maintainers request the Backport tag to be added on commit. +Contributors are also welcome to mark their patches with the Backport +tag when they deem appropriate. Maintainers will request for it to be +removed when that is not the case. + +Please note that the Backport tag is a **request** for backport, which +will still need to be evaluated by the stable tree maintainers.