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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:49:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 0/4] ppc patches
 for qemu-2.7 stable branch
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Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>, qemu-stable <qemu-stable@nongnu.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 17 October 2016 at 22:24, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Quoting Peter Maydell (2016-10-17 13:45:21)
>> On 17 October 2016 at 19:13, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> > We could do both though: use some ad-hoc way to tag for a particular
>> > sub-maintainer tree/stable branch, as well as an explicit "not for
>> > master" in the cover letter ensure it doesn't go into master. It's a bit
>> > more redundant, but flexible in that people can use whatever tagging
>> > format they want for a particular tree.
>>
>> Yes, that would be my preference. Gmail's filtering is not
>> very good, and it doesn't seem to be able to support
>> multiple or complex matches on the subject line, but
>> it can deal with "doesn't include foo in body".
>> People who actively want to look for stuff not to go
>> into master can filter it however they like.
>
> Sounds good to me. For my part I think "for-2.7.1" etc. would be
> prefereable. No need to resend this patchset though.
>
> I suppose MAINTAINERS would be the best place to document something
> like this?

We have http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPullRequest
and I've added a note to it.

thanks
-- PMM