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From: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] doc: add guidelines for stable tags
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:04:25 +0530
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On 1/9/2018 9:21 PM, Marko Kovacevic wrote:
>    Added contribution guideline for adding stable
>    tags when sending patches all fix patches to the
>    master branch that are candidates for backporting
>
> Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
> index e6b6e80..f98e601 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
> @@ -276,6 +276,21 @@ Coverity issue tag should be inserted into the commit message body as so::
>
>       Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@example.com>
>
> +Patch for Stable Releases:
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +All fix patches to the master branch that are candidates for backporting
> +should also be CCed to the `stable@dpdk.org <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/stable>`_
> +mailing list. In the commit message body the Cc: stable@dpdk.org should be inserted as so::
> +
> +     doc: fix some parameter description
> +
> +     Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
> +
> +     Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
> +     Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> +
> +     Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@example.com>
>

you may also give reference to 
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/stable.html


>  Creating Patches
>  ----------------
>