[Xen-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Reference stable maintenance policy

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell <ijc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1354031669 0
# Node ID 1c8fa0e2583b409ca7d45cefa9eaff0127c28ee9
# Parent  ae6fb202b233af815466055d9f1a635802a50855
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>

diff -r ae6fb202b233 -r 1c8fa0e2583b MAINTAINERS
--- a/MAINTAINERS       Tue Nov 20 08:58:31 2012 +0100
+++ b/MAINTAINERS       Tue Nov 27 15:54:29 2012 +0000
@@ -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 +39,23 @@ 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 appropriate stable branch maintainer who will be
+listed in this section of the MAINTAINERS file in the appropriate
+branch.
+
+       Unstable Subsystem Maintainers
+       ==============================
+
 Descriptions of section entries:
 
        M: Mail patches to: FullName <address@domain>

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