From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Please *justify* your use of the for-4.5 tag when posting patches Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:52:22 +0000 Message-ID: <1415098342.11486.23.camel@citrix.com> References: <1414591781-19376-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> <1415098082.11486.19.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1415098082.11486.19.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel Cc: Ian Jackson , Olaf Hering , Wei Liu , Andrew Cooper List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 10:48 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: Reposting with a more eyecatching subject, since this was by far not the only patch with this issue. > In the future when you include a "for-4.5" tag on a patch please > *always* state your reasoning (usually after the "---"). Don't make the > maintainer / release manager / committer guess why you think it should > be in 4.5. If you consider it "obviously a bug fix" then say so and then > say something about the impact of the bug and the risk associated with > the fix. > > I'm a bit grumpy about the number of patches which don't do this, such > patches are mostly going to the back of my queue, alongside the 4.6 > patches, since without any rationale that is effectively what I consider > them to be despite the use of the for-4.5 tag.