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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devtools: check stable tag in fixes
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:20:45 +0000
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On 1/20/2017 10:23 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:10:54AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> 2017-01-20 15:59, Yuanhan Liu:
>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:00:23PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>>>> To highlight, and double check, the process will be updated as following:
>>>>
>>>> - Author may or may not have "CC: stable@dpdk.org" for fixes.
>>>>
>>>> - Maintainer/Committer may add "CC: stable@dpdk.org" tag to commit log,
>>>> but won't send a mail to the stable mail list.
>>>>
>>>> - "CC: stable@dpdk.org" tags will remain in commit logs.
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> Sorry, I do not understand why a maintainer or a committer would not send a
>> mail to the stable ML. If we add the CC: tag, we can also CC:stable@dpdk.org
>> in our reply.
> 
> Oh, right.

Because if the decision will be given based on parsing git history, same
patch being sent to stable mail list will be duplicate and will create
noise.
But if this will help somebody, somehow, I don't see any issue to
sending mail to stable mail list.

> 
> 	--yliu
>