Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a description of a new optional tag for Backports

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefano,

On 10/04/2020 17:49, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Create a new document under docs/process to describe our special tags.
> For now, only add the new backport tag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>

It would be good to get an ack by from Jan as he is the maintainer for 
stable's branch.
Cheers,

> CC: jbeulich@xxxxxxxx
> CC: george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: julien@xxxxxxx
> CC: lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
>
> This is the original thread: https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=157324027614941
>
> The backport tag was agreed upon. George requested the file to be
> renamed to something more generic, where we could add more information
> later.
>
> I kept the original content and acked-by. I renamed the file to
> tags.pandoc.
> ---
>   docs/process/tags.pandoc | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 docs/process/tags.pandoc
>
> diff --git a/docs/process/tags.pandoc b/docs/process/tags.pandoc
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..e570efdcc8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/process/tags.pandoc
> @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> +Backport Tag
> +------------
> +
> +A backport tag is an optional tag in the commit message to request a
> +given commit to be backported to the stable trees:
> +
> +    Backport: all
> +
> +It marks a commit for being a candidate for backports to all relevant
> +trees.
> +
> +    Backport: 4.9+
> +
> +It marks a commit for being a candidate for backports to all stable
> +trees from 4.9 onward.
> +
> +Maintainers request the Backport tag to be added on commit.
> +Contributors are also welcome to mark their patches with the Backport
> +tag when they deem appropriate. Maintainers will request for it to be
> +removed when that is not the case.
> +
> +Please note that the Backport tag is a **request** for backport, which
> +will still need to be evaluated by the stable tree maintainers.
--
Julien Grall