The stable release process documented in stable-kernel-rules.rst needs
to be updated to reflect current procedure.
Patch 1 and 2 reorganize section on submission procedure.
Patch 3 contains the actual process documentation update.
Patch 4 and 5 deals with various stable tree links.
Changes since v1 [1]:
- Following the submission: remove the case when manual backport is
requested from the maintainer
- Review cycle: remove mention to [PATCH AUTOSEL/MANUALSEL]
- Review cycle: just spell "developers and testers" when testing -rc
releases
- Review cycle: respond to -rc releases with Tested-by: message
- Submission procedure: split security patch note commit into its own
patch
- Trees: add warning for stable-rc tree
[1]:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20220312080043.37581-1-bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx/T/#t
Bagas Sanjaya (5):
Documentation: add note block surrounding security patch note
Documentation: remove "For all other submissions..." section
Documentation: update stable review cycle documentation
Documentation: add link to stable release candidate tree
Documentation: update stable tree link
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 35 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
base-commit: ffb217a13a2eaf6d5bd974fc83036a53ca69f1e2
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