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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 2016 01:44:13 -0500
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Requesting MFC's
Message-ID:  <56B2F33D.2060106@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <56B2EC93.9020409@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <56B2B854.2030904@shrew.net> <56B2EC93.9020409@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2016-02-04 01:15, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 4/02/2016 1:32 PM, Matthew Grooms wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> What is the correct way to request that patches be committed to STABLE?
>> In particular, I'd really like to see these in 10.3-RELEASE as they have
>> been required to build a working firewall in some cases. All are related
>> to problems that were fixed in HEAD, but never MFC'd ...
>>
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=264915
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=272695
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=288529
> 
> 1) Create an issue in Bugzilla for it
>   a) Assigned to original committer
>   b) Set mfc-stableX flag to?
> 
> Committer can then set mfc-stableX flag to + when done, or set it to -
> with comment about why not/invalid/inappropriate
> 
> If a branch is in feature freeze, issues should either:
> 
> - Have re@ CC'd so they can be informed of the request
> - Have maintainer-approval ? re@FreeBSD.org set so that the release
> engineering team can approve/deny changes
> 
> This is also the recommended method for changes that already have
> bugzilla issues created for them.
> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -Matthew
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RE@ has a specific procedure for requesting approval for an MFC during a
freeze: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/ChangeRequestGuidelines
I would imagine they prefer not to be added to bugzilla issues until a
committer decides it is worth MFCing something

-- 
Allan Jude


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