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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 15:54 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> # 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>

Any objections/acks to this patch? Shall I commit it?

> 
> 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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