[OE-core] Clarification on backport and bugfix patch submittal process

[Bryan Evenson]

Paul,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 9:18 AM
> To: Bryan Evenson
> Cc: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] Clarification on backport and bugfix patch submittal
> process
> 
> Hi Bryan,
> 
> On Monday 20 April 2015 12:42:33 Bryan Evenson wrote:
> > Last week I had submitted two patches
> > (1f994e81717502fd9d3c2f69772ae8556e6de4cb and
> > 433ec67686d6991d2d5f43fd1af957968da1971c) related to problems I had
> > been having on the dizzy branch and was happy to see they were
> accepted.
> > However, I only see the patches on the dizzy branch and I think these
> > changes are suitable for backport for all supported branches since the
> > problem was introduced (which I think was introduced in dora).  I
> > think I had included [dizzy] as a tag in the subject for the patches
> > since that was the branch I had been working with.
> 
> Is the patch also applicable to fido/master? Because at the moment it seems
> only to have been applied to dizzy.
> 

Yes, in my opinion these two patches are suitable for dora up through master.

> > I can see that there are cases in which a patch only applies to a
> > particular branch (e.g. package version changes in the next branch,
> > patch no longer
> > applies) and there are cases in which the patch is applicable for
> > master all the way back to a particular branch.  What is the suggested
> > way of indicating the difference when submitting patches?
> 
> In general the policies we use for maintaining the stable branch should be
> documented here:
> 
>   https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_branch_maintenance
> 

That page helps a lot.  I've bookmarked it for future reference when submitting patches.

Thanks,
Bryan

> I would say if there is any specificity to the issue the patch fixes, particularly if
> it only applies to one of the stable branches, it should probably be noted in
> the commit message.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> --
> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre