[PATCH v2 1/2] devtools: don't include headline "fix" in backports
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Sat Nov 26 22:35:22 CET 2022
03/12/2021 15:04, Kevin Traynor:
> On 03/12/2021 07:54, christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com wrote:
> > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> >
> > It was important in the past to select anything with "fix" in the
> > headline, but recently more often created false positives and work
> > to sort tihngs out than identifying many helpful patches.
> >
> > The community and processes aroudn DPDK matured enough that developers
> > (rightfully) expect to rely on "Fixes:" and "stable@" marking for
> > backprots.
>
> nit: several typos here and i think it should say "or" stable@
>
> >
> > Therefore do no more include patches that just include the word fix
> > in the backport candidate list.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> > ---
> > devtools/git-log-fixes.sh | 5 ++---
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/devtools/git-log-fixes.sh b/devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
> > index 210c8dcf25..27ec9088d4 100755
> > --- a/devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
> > +++ b/devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
> > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ print_help ()
> > cat <<- END_OF_HELP
> >
> > Find fixes to backport on previous versions.
> > - It looks for the word "fix" in the headline or a tag "Fixes" or "Reverts".
> > + It looks for a tag "Fixes" or "Reverts" and for recipient stable at dpdk.org.
>
> "..or for recipient stable at dpdk.org."
>
> Good idea, thanks. With minor fixes,
>
> Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>
After one year, nits above have not been fixed, so I'm doing it myself.
While at it, remove "Reverts" from help because not parsed in reality.
Series applied with above changes.
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