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

[Emil Velikov]

On 15 February 2017 at 19:39, Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
Ack, ty.

> 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.
We have that one as well. It's a recent addition, so not really a silver bullet.

We're getting there ;-)
-Emil