docs: Update stable process around using fixes: and gitlab
authorDylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:01:57 +0000 (11:01 -0800)
committerMarge Bot <eric+marge@anholt.net>
Thu, 5 Mar 2020 18:24:14 +0000 (18:24 +0000)
commit07f1ef5656e0721282d01a8421eaca056348137d
tree5218c385953ac58c1f7ea05ac0fa8a11f2dec03a
parent55dac91adc40db191c385f9a2ce393f46dd9b859
docs: Update stable process around using fixes: and gitlab

Currently the docs still recommend using
mesa-stable@lists.freedesktop.org, which is pretty awful. We really
don't want a second mailing list and it's mostly full of junk because of
CC: tags anyway.
This changes the preferred actions to be:
1) use a fixes: tag ahead of time
2) use a Cc tag ahead of time if fixes isn't appropriate
3) Use a gitlab MR against the staging/ branch for post-merge/backport
   nominations

Reviewed-by: Timothy Arceri <tarceri@itsqueeze.com>
Tested-by: Marge Bot <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/3056>
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/3056>
docs/submittingpatches.html