[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] Add accumulated list of missing patches to release announce

[Yongseok Koh]

Stable maintainers sholud keep an accumulated list of missing patches. And
this will be notified in the release announce.

Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com>
---
 6-announce-release | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 README             | 13 ++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/6-announce-release b/6-announce-release
index 4cd5b05..619065c 100755
--- a/6-announce-release
+++ b/6-announce-release
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
 source ./lib.sh
 
+if [ $# -lt 1 ] || [ ! -f "$1" ]
+then
+	echo "Usage: $0 failed_list"
+	exit 1
+fi
+failed_list="/tmp/.list-$$"
+grep -v "^#" $1 > $failed_list
+
 get_diffs()
 {
 	$GIT diff v${last_release}..v${stable_release} --stat
@@ -35,3 +43,16 @@ EOF
 }
 
 compose_release_note
+
+cat << EOF
+---[ List of missing patches ]---
+The following is the accumulated list of skipped patches. Authors/maintainers
+have not yet responded to backport requests. Actions to take per each patch,
+
+	a) say "it is not relevant to ${RTE_VER_MAJOR}"
+	b) send out a backport to stable at dpdk.org
+
+EOF
+while read commit patch; do
+	describe_commit $commit
+done < $failed_list | sort -k 2
diff --git a/README b/README
index fc1bc5d..25f09d5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -88,10 +88,12 @@ base could have been changed that it needs a manual backport.
 
 The usage is:
 
-    $ 3-request-backport failed-list
-
-Where, the failed-list is generated from "1-import".
+    $ 3-request-backport accumulated-failed-list
 
+A failed-list for a release is generated from "1-import" but maintainer
+should keep an accumulated list for the stable tree and send out this
+request multiple times with the accumulated list of failed patches. This
+list will also be used by "6-announce-release".
 
 4-final-review
 ==============
@@ -158,8 +160,9 @@ and finally suggest that change to the web team at web at dpdk.org
 6-announce-release
 
 The last step is to announce it. The usage is also simpler: just type the
-command without any options. Again, it will generate a email, and you have
-to edit it (since it's way too short and simple so far :).
+command with the accumulated failed list mentioned in "3-request-backport".
+Again, it will generate an email, and you have to edit it (since it's way
+too short and simple so far :).
 
 
 That's all.
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2.11.0