Paul, > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com] > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 9:18 AM > To: Bryan Evenson > Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > Subject: Re: [OE-core] Clarification on backport and bugfix patch submittal > process > > Hi Bryan, > > On Monday 20 April 2015 12:42:33 Bryan Evenson wrote: > > Last week I had submitted two patches > > (1f994e81717502fd9d3c2f69772ae8556e6de4cb and > > 433ec67686d6991d2d5f43fd1af957968da1971c) related to problems I had > > been having on the dizzy branch and was happy to see they were > accepted. > > However, I only see the patches on the dizzy branch and I think these > > changes are suitable for backport for all supported branches since the > > problem was introduced (which I think was introduced in dora). I > > think I had included [dizzy] as a tag in the subject for the patches > > since that was the branch I had been working with. > > Is the patch also applicable to fido/master? Because at the moment it seems > only to have been applied to dizzy. >
Yes, in my opinion these two patches are suitable for dora up through master. > > I can see that there are cases in which a patch only applies to a > > particular branch (e.g. package version changes in the next branch, > > patch no longer > > applies) and there are cases in which the patch is applicable for > > master all the way back to a particular branch. What is the suggested > > way of indicating the difference when submitting patches? > > In general the policies we use for maintaining the stable branch should be > documented here: > > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_branch_maintenance > That page helps a lot. I've bookmarked it for future reference when submitting patches. Thanks, Bryan > I would say if there is any specificity to the issue the patch fixes, > particularly if > it only applies to one of the stable branches, it should probably be noted in > the commit message. > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- > > Paul Eggleton > Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core