[Xen-changelog] [xen-4.1-testing] MAINTAINERS: Reference stable maintenance policy

[Xen patchbot-4.1-testing <patchbot@xxxxxxx>]

# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1354788185 -3600
# Node ID 6c7febc0bbebb6b29432a3009b61f77ac3abc727
# Parent  a8a9e1c126eaa93ec0a60f20ca1abe713a2df540
MAINTAINERS: Reference stable maintenance policy

I also couldn't resist fixing a typo and adding a reference to
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches for the normal case as
well.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
Committed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
xen-unstable changeset: 26238:53805e238cca
xen-unstable date: Thu Dec  6 09:56:53 UTC 2012
---


diff -r a8a9e1c126ea -r 6c7febc0bbeb MAINTAINERS
--- a/MAINTAINERS       Tue Dec 04 18:50:03 2012 +0000
+++ b/MAINTAINERS       Thu Dec 06 11:03:05 2012 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 
        List of maintainers and how to submit changes
+       =============================================
 
 Please try to follow the guidelines below.  This will make things
 easier on the maintainers.  Not all of these guidelines matter for every
@@ -15,7 +16,11 @@ 3.   Make a patch available to the relevan
        'diff -u' to make the patch easy to merge. Be prepared to get your
        changes sent back with seemingly silly requests about formatting
        and variable names.  These aren't as silly as they seem. One
-       job the maintainersdo is to keep things looking the same.
+       job the maintainers do is to keep things looking the same.
+
+       PLEASE see http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches for
+       hints on how to submit a patch to xen-unstable in a suitable
+       form.
 
        PLEASE try to include any credit lines you want added with the
        patch. It avoids people being missed off by mistake and makes
@@ -34,6 +39,28 @@ 4.   Make sure you have the right to send 
 
 5.     Happy hacking.
 
+
+       Stable Release Maintenance
+       ==========================
+
+The policy for inclusion in a Xen stable release is different to that
+for inclusion in xen-unstable.
+
+Please see http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Maintenance_Releases for more
+information.
+
+Remember to copy the stable branch maintainer. The maintainer for this
+branch is:
+
+       Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
+
+Tools backport requests should also be copied to:
+
+       Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+
+       Unstable Subsystem Maintainers
+       ==============================
+
 Descriptions of section entries:
 
        M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>

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