From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: stable backports should be requested on xen-devel Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:42:55 +0100 Message-ID: <1441719775.24450.104.camel@citrix.com> References: <1437812702-32219-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <1441712224.24450.68.camel@citrix.com> <20150908132040.GE12714@zion.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150908132040.GE12714@zion.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Wei Liu , Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com Cc: jbeulich@suse.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 14:20 +0100, Wei Liu wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:37:04PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 09:25 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > As well as CC-ing the correct people. I just saw such a request on > > > xen-users and thought this was worth clarifying here too. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell > > > > Just found this in my folder, do we want to take it for 4.6? > > > > Fine by me of course. AIUI the branching process involves tweaking this text to refer to the specific maintainers of the given stable branch. IOW I think the "backport" of this might be a little more involved, but hopefully fairly obvious -- Ian, do you think you can deal with it? $ git diff origin/staging-4.5 origin/staging -- MAINTAINERS | filterdiff -#1 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -49,14 +49,9 @@ for inclusion in xen-unstable. Please see http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Maintenance_Releases for more information. -Remember to copy the stable branch maintainer. The maintainer for this -branch is: - - Jan Beulich - -Tools backport requests should also be copied to: - - Ian Jackson +Remember to copy the appropriate stable branch maintainer who will be +listed in this section of the MAINTAINERS file in the appropriate +branch. Unstable Subsystem Maintainers ============================== > > > > --- > > > MAINTAINERS | 7 ++++--- > > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > > > index a4e64ea..156a95f 100644 > > > --- a/MAINTAINERS > > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > > > @@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ for inclusion in xen-unstable. > > > Please see http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Maintenance_Releases for > > > more > > > information. > > > > > > -Remember to copy the appropriate stable branch maintainer who will > > > be > > > -listed in this section of the MAINTAINERS file in the appropriate > > > -branch. > > > +Backport requests should be made on the > > > xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > > > +list. Remember to copy the appropriate stable branch maintainer who > > > +will be listed in this section of the MAINTAINERS file in the > > > +appropriate branch. > > > > > > Unstable Subsystem Maintainers > > > ==============================