Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/4] ppc patches for qemu-2.7 stable branch

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 October 2016 at 22:24, Michael Roth <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Peter Maydell (2016-10-17 13:45:21)
>> On 17 October 2016 at 19:13, Michael Roth <address@hidden> 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