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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:22:48 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] ARM: three easy patches for
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On 18 February 2014 11:16, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Il 18/02/2014 12:09, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>
>> > No, we've had that topic before: It's your job as submitter and
>> > maintainer to flag that appropriately in the commit message, as per QEMU
>> > Summit 2012.
>>
>> I don't think this workflow works. I have no idea what
>> stable's criteria are, and if you rely on people
>> adding a cc you're going to miss stuff.
>
>
> There isn't really a standard criterion.  It's up to each maintainer to be
> stricter or looser on what goes to stable.

My criteria for ARM in the past has typically been "there's
a new release every three months, anything that got past
the release testing process for release N is sufficiently
non-critical it can just go into release N+1".

thanks
-- PMM