Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: stable backports should be requested on xen-devel

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 14:20 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:37:04PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 09:25 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > As well as CC-ing the correct people. I just saw such a request on
> > > xen-users and thought this was worth clarifying here too.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Just found this in my folder, do we want to take it for 4.6?
> > 
> 
> Fine by me of course.

AIUI the branching process involves tweaking this text to refer to the
specific maintainers of the given stable branch.

IOW I think the "backport" of this might be a little more involved, but
hopefully fairly obvious -- Ian, do you think you can deal with it?

$ git diff origin/staging-4.5 origin/staging -- MAINTAINERS | filterdiff -#1
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -49,14 +49,9 @@ 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>
+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
        ==============================
> 
> > > ---
> > >  MAINTAINERS | 7 ++++---
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > > index a4e64ea..156a95f 100644
> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > > @@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ 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.
> > > +Backport requests should be made on the 
> > > xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > +list. 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
> > >   ==============================

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