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Chris Wright <chrisw at sous-sol.org> writes:

> * Mark McLoughlin (markmc at redhat.com) wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 13:58 -0400, James E. Blair wrote:
>> > Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> writes:
>> > > Anyone can propose a cherry-pick to the maintainers. This helps ensure
>> > > that the maintainers don't miss anything. To catch the maintainers
>> > > attention, simply add
>> > >
>> > >  Cc: stable at openstack.org
>> > 
>> > Are you planning on grepping commit logs for that, or are you asking
>> > people to email that address?
>> 
>> Yeah, it's just a marker to grep for.
>> 
>> Having a stable at openstack.org alias might be no harm, though.
>
> It's been invaluable for the kernel.  Having the marker in the commit
> log allows for automated propagation.  When the commit hits upstream,
> email lands in the stable inbox.  Not having the mail alias isn't as big
> a deal as not having the marker in the commit log, though.

We can use gerrit to help with this.  Anyone can set up a watch in
gerrit that notifies them of changes matching certain criteria.  To
implement the above suggestion, you would create a watch on this screen:

  https://review-dev.openstack.org/#settings,projects

with the settings:

  Project Name: All-Projects
       Only If: message:"stable at openstack.org"

And then check the "Email Notifications - New Changes" checkbox.  That
will cause gerrit to send an email whenever a matching change is
proposed, and better yet, the change shows up in your 'watched changes'
list in gerrit.

The search language is very flexible, here's the whole vocabulary:

  https://review.openstack.org/Documentation/user-search.html

Of course the search string could be anything.  If we use gerrit project
watches for this, I think we should not use an email address as the
marker if it isn't a real email address.  Since if we use watches, we
don't have to create a new mailing list, I'd prefer not to.  Maybe just
search for the string "stable-updates".  On the other hand, if the
maintainers want a list anyway, then we can turn on the mailing list
feature for the group in launchpad, and use that address as the tag.

-Jim