Re: [PATCH] devtools: check stable tag in fixes

[Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 09:32:22AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Yes, it's just part of the committer job, say, adding Tested-by,
> > Reviewed-by, that kind of stuff.
> 
> So it should be stressed in the contribution guide that it is the
> responsibility of the author and the maintainer to put this Cc: tag.

Yes, I will do that.

> > > > Last thing, if this tag will remain in the commit log, is this only for
> > > > stable tree, or any "Cc: <mail_address>" can stay in the history?
> > > 
> > > I do not see the benefit of keeping other Cc in the history.
> > 
> > Again, I really don't know why you bother to remove it, manually, commit
> > by commit. What's the gain here? It just adds more burden to a committer.
> > Honestly, I never do that.
> 
> I had the personal feeling that if the Cc: person is not in SoB, Ack or
> Review tags, it means he's not interested in this patch.
> After thinking more, I was probably wrong.

It's just not commonly used in DPDK, just like people here seldom use
Reviewed-by while everyone just throw an Acked-by.

> > It actually has benefits. Keeping the cc tags allows us to cc them when
> > we find a bug in that patch and make a fix patch later: they are likely
> > to want to know any follow updates on that original patch.
> > 
> > It also helps when I send out a stable patch review: I send a copy to
> > all guys on the Cc list, on the Ack/Review, SoB list. I think they might
> > also want to know that patch is a candidate for a specific branch. He may
> > even give some comments, something like "if you pick this one, you might
> > want to pick another one", or "why bother to port it to a stable release",
> > that kind of thing.
> 
> OK Yuanhan, thanks for the explanations.

Thanks for "listening"! :)

> I will send a v2 to relax the constraint of blank line below Fixes: tag,
> and change the warning when Cc: tag is missing. Or remove the warning?
> What do you think of: "Reminder: is it a candidate for stable@dpdk.org backport?"

Yes, I think such Reminder is enough. It might put him thinking more.

Thanks.

	--yliu