Re: [PATCH] Introduce a description of the Backport and Fixes tags

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefano Stabellini writes ("[PATCH] Introduce a description of the Backport and 
Fixes tags"):
> Create a new document under docs/process to describe our special tags.
> Add a description of the Fixes tag and the new Backport tag. Also
> clarify that lines with tags should not be split.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> +When possible, please use the Fixes tag instead (or in addition).

Do we have any code to turn Fixes: into a list of commits to
backport to a particular stable branch ?

If not it might be easier to ask people to add both Backport: and
Fixes:.

Ian.