[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/4] docs/submittingpatches.html: remove version tag for nominations

[Eric Anholt]

Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> writes:

> From: Emil Velikov <emil.veliko at collabora.com>
>
> The version tag used to nominate has bitten even experienced mesa
> developers. Not to mention that it deviates from the one used in the
> kernel leading to further confusion.
>
> Simplify things and omit it all together.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velcro <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> ---
> Another option would be to align it with the kernel one, but that could
> bring even further confusion.

I like this a lot -- I'm usually just copy-and-pasting someone else's cc
stable line, so I'll probably occasionally nominate my stuff for an
inactive stable branch.  I'm not too worried about patches accidentally
applying to too-old code.

FWIW, this is more or less how the kernel's stable branches have been
working for me -- I write a "Fixes: <short sha1> short commit subject"
line in the commit, and Greg cherry-picks it back to all stable branches
since that sha1 that it applies to.
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