[Openembedded-architecture] [RFC] Commit Patch Message Guidelines amendment

[akuster808]

On 11/06/2017 08:33 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 07:58:21AM -0800, akuster808 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to amend the "Patch Message Guidelines" to include a
>> "version affected" component if it applies.
>>
>> There are times when a patch can apply to other versions and providing
>> this information will be helpful to package maintainers, stable branch
>> maintainers and to indicate what versions are not affected by the change.
>>
>> Do we want to standardize on a tag or phrase? like :
>>
>>
>> Affects: <, <= {version}
> Do you have any specific examples of its usage?
No. But I have done this in the commit message in the interim.

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?h=pyro&id=99656fecf4fa6e24ba49ecb7f26f893e733818a0

>
>
>> Ideas and thoughts
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Armin
>>
>>
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