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]> Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <[email protected]> --- doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst index 59d2aaf..cef9776 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst @@ -277,6 +277,23 @@ body of the commit message. For example:: 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 follows:: + + 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]> + +For further information on stable contribution you can go here :doc:`Stable Contribution<stable>` Creating Patches ---------------- -- 2.9.5
