[Xen-changelog] [xen-4.2-testing] MAINTAINERS: Reference stable maintenance policy

[Xen patchbot-4.2-testing <patchbot@xxxxxxx>]

# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1354788106 -3600
# Node ID 6efa959326cc1eba19840d9caa1af1a12c3afe72
# Parent  b306bce613413c772af7a7660c9fd44d347b5ee2
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 b306bce61341 -r 6efa959326cc MAINTAINERS
--- a/MAINTAINERS       Tue Dec 04 18:02:59 2012 +0000
+++ b/MAINTAINERS       Thu Dec 06 11:01:46 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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