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 <[email protected]> --- 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 <[email protected]> +Patch for Stable Releases: +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +All fix patches to the master branch that are candidates for backporting +should also be CCed to the `[email protected] <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/stable>`_ +mailing list. In the commit message body the Cc: [email protected] 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: [email protected] + + Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <[email protected]> Creating Patches ---------------- -- 2.9.5
