[PATCH 1/2] devtools: don't include headline "fix" in backports

[Christian Ehrhardt]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:51 AM <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>

Hmm, that probably should go to dev@ instead since that is where the
script lives - resubmitting

> 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.
>
> 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.
>         The oldest bug origin is printed as well as partially fixed versions.
>         END_OF_HELP
>  }
> @@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ while read id headline ; do
>         origins=$(origin_filter $id)
>         stable=$(stable_tag $id)
>         fixes=$(fixes_tag $id)
> -       [ "$stable" = "S" ] || [ "$fixes" = "F" ] || [ -n "$origins" ] || \
> -               echo "$headline" | grep -q fix || continue
> +       [ "$stable" = "S" ] || [ "$fixes" = "F" ] || [ -n "$origins" ] || continue
>         version=$(commit_version $id)
>         if [ -n "$origins" ] ; then
>                 origver="$(origin_version $origins)"
> --
> 2.34.0
>


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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd