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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New stable branch information
From: "Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>
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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:48:32 -0600
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To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 20:26 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:25:26AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > To help make the stable branch more active than it has been in the
> > past, I'd like to split the stable branch into a separate tree to
> > allow the tree to develop a life of its own over time.
> > 
> > I'd like to begin this process with 0.14 and as such, have created a
> > new stable tree at git://git.qemu.org/qemu-stable-0.14.git.
> > 
> > Justin Forbes has volunteered to help collect patches for this tree.
> > The same stable rules still apply: patches should go into master
> > first except for rare exceptions where that's feasible.
> > 
> 
> I think this kind of job is more than just collecting patches, it also
> means following the development, to identify patches that may apply to
> stable, possibly asking the authors their opinion if the patch should be
> applied to stable.

Absolutely, though it is also very helpful if the maintainers let us
know when they think a patch needs to be in stable as well.

Justin