[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] docs: Clarify Fixes tag behavior for stable branches.

[Bas Nieuwenhuizen]

This seems to be the current state of affairs. Emil has plans to
get feedback about it and possibly change it, but let us put this
in the documentation now in case that gets delayed or cancelled.

This should clarify the misunderstanding which started

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2018-September/205696.html

Signed-off-by: Bas Nieuwenhuizen <bas at basnieuwenhuizen.nl>
CC: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
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Seems like some release managers also consistently notify on rejected Fixes patches,
but I don't think we should encode behavior of different release managers in the
documentation, so this seems like the safe choice.

 docs/submittingpatches.html | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.html b/docs/submittingpatches.html
index e5350bdb2cf..144e00d677b 100644
--- a/docs/submittingpatches.html
+++ b/docs/submittingpatches.html
@@ -284,7 +284,9 @@ Thus, drop the line <strong>only</strong> if you want to cancel the nomination.
 
 Alternatively, if one uses the "Fixes" tag as described in the "Patch formatting"
 section, it nominates a commit for all active stable branches that include the
-commit that is referred to.
+commit that is referred to. However, this is only an implicit nomination and the
+release manager can decide to reject your patch without replying to the original
+patch or asking for a backport.
 
 <h2 id="criteria">Criteria for accepting patches to the stable branch</h2>
 
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