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doc: add contribution guidelines for stable tags

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Added contribution guideline for adding stable
tags when sending patches all fix patches to the
master branch that are candidates for backporting

Signed-off-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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@ -277,6 +277,26 @@ in the body of the commit message. For example::
Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@example.com>
Patch for Stable Releases
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All fix patches to the master branch that are candidates for backporting
should also be CCed to the `stable@dpdk.org <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/stable>`_
mailing list.
In the commit message body the Cc: stable@dpdk.org should be inserted as follows::
doc: fix some parameter description
Update the docs, fixing description of some parameter.
Fixes: abcdefgh1234 ("doc: add some parameter")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@example.com>
For further information on stable contribution you can go to
:doc:`Stable Contribution Guide <stable>`.
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