doc: add details on requirements for patch ack and merge
authorBruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:02:47 +0000 (12:02 +0000)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:48:22 +0000 (14:48 +0100)
commit7968191b5a9a494056825d12069de8fa1297965f
tree1270768b16cc9a355358e064ea0c05b2eebd6506
parentc9051455d6bcd4bfdffdc83c8f2c329a7534921c
doc: add details on requirements for patch ack and merge

Add to the contributors guide the requirements and guidelines for
getting patches acked and merged. It details at what point the review
comments and the ack's need to be received in order to have a given
patch merged into a release.

These guidelines are as agreed by the DPDK technical board at the
meeting held on 2017-02-15.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst