[Mesa-dev] [RFC] Mesa 9.2 and release process changes

[Tom Stellard]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:42:42AM -0700, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> On 07/10/2013 04:38 PM, Ian Romanick wrote:
> [snip]
> >Could we just change our "Mark the patch with 'NOTE: ...'" policy with
> >"To have the patch automatically included in the stable tree, add the tag
> >     Cc: mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org
> >
> >in the sign-off area..." ?
> 
> This loses a bit of information, sadly.
> 
> These two are interchangeable:
> NOTE: This is a candidate for the stable branches.
> Cc: mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org
>
> But what about:
> NOTE: This is a candidate for the 9.2 branch.
> (but not the 9.1 branch, or 9.0 branch...)
> 
> What then?

Is there any reason why CC: mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org is
preferable over the old NOTE: This is a candidate ...
annotation?

-Tom