[OE stablebranch] [RFC] Commit and review policy

[Koen Kooi]

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Op 29 mrt 2008, om 11:44 heeft Koen Kooi het volgende geschreven:
> [copied from the wiki]
>
> The current procedures of backporting fixes from the dev branch to the
> stable branch is based on RFC from the angstrom-distro-devel mailing
> list. These are subject to assessment/change and open for proposals of
> improvements. The philosophy of Angstrom backport is minimalistic
> (i.e., only fix broken things and important bugs) instead of keeping
> it as much in sync as possible with dev branch.

<snip>

> 2. Once approved by two developers (with at least one OE stable branch
> maintainer),

We should adopt kernel style Signed-off-by <foo at bar.org> lines

<snip>

> [committing in between. mtn gives default commit message, you should
> remove first line as it suggest. Each commit should still include
> revision which is being merged and changelog subject for it, I suggest
> just pasting line from BACKPORTS.txt, leaving mtn's default text where
> it is, at the top, and paste such a line after it.

The commit message should look like:

- ---
linux 2.6.24: backport rtc fixes for simpad

Revision: ead8fe4eb9f4a05e10d6ad072d127ba6aa6820f7
Author: woglinde2 at openembedded.org
Date: 2008-03-25T17:30:23

Signed-off-by <bernhard at opensimpad.org>
Signed-off-by <koen at openembedded.org>
- ---

regards,

Koen






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