From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Conole Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: add default that all fixes are backported Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:00:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1529596827-14756-1-git-send-email-ktraynor@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, bluca@debian.org, yskoh@mellanox.com, christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com, dev@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net To: Kevin Traynor Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3729F1BAE4 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:00:27 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1529596827-14756-1-git-send-email-ktraynor@redhat.com> (Kevin Traynor's message of "Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:00:27 +0100") List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Kevin Traynor writes: > Set the starting point that all commits on master branch > with Fixes tag are backported to relevant stable/LTS branches. > > Of course there will be exceptions that will crop up from time > to time that need discussion, so also add a sentence for that. > > This is to ensure that there is consistency between what is > backported to stable/LTS branches, remove some subjectivity > as to what constitutes "a fix" and avoid possible conflicts > for future backports. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor > --- Acked-by: Aaron Conole