Re: rdma-core stable releases

Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin
2017-11-13T11:44:51Z

Le 13/11/2017 à 12:43, Leon Romanovsky a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:56:19AM +0100, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:
>>
>> Le 13/11/2017 à 11:41, Leon Romanovsky a écrit :
>>
>>>> I'm OK with keeping just the ML for the moment. If it becomes too much of a mess, I'll come back with my github request (or something else).
>>>> How do you suggest flagging me for those patches ? Should we follow the kernel stable process ?
>>> I think so, the kernel process works, we just need to adapt it to rdma-core.
>>> Regarding the flagging procedure, we can do like Greg and Sasha do.
>>>
>>> Open email account (e.g. stable-Xl5UnYtxxKxKUA01WzcqbQ@public.gmane.org), connect it to /dev/null,
>>> so people won't get bounce emails while they sent patches to it, and
>>> once a week or two run script [1], which will check master branch and
>>> cherry-pick patches with Cc: stable@ in their commit messages.
>>>
>>> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/stable-tools.git/tree/
>> Sounds fine to me.
> Need to document that.
> BTW: I opened stable-Xl5UnYtxxKxKUA01WzcqbQ@public.gmane.org email, if you want I can forward all
> emails from that account to you, right now, everything goes to /dev/null.
>
> Thanks
>
>

Yes you can forward them to me.
I need to prepare a patch with Arlin proposal and this stuff too.

Thanks

Nicolas