[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: clarify adding author to commit message

Honnappa Nagarahalli honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com
Tue Jun 30 21:01:40 CEST 2020


Clarify to add the author in CC while contributing patches to stable.

Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
---
 doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst | 1 +
 doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst  | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
index 16b40225f..282c1fec3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst
@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ In the commit message body the Cc: stable at dpdk.org should be inserted as follows
      Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
 
      Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
+     Cc: author at example.com
      Cc: stable at dpdk.org
 
      Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith at example.com>
diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
index 890bbeccc..747d4bc7c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/contributing/stable.rst
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ commit message body as follows::
      Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
 
      Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
+     Cc: author at example.com
      Cc: stable at dpdk.org
 
      Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith at example.com>
-- 
2.17.1



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