From 0375d958ef13dc8803f39c1919c9ab6a1deed67b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Belanger Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:38:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: explain backport labels MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40520 Reviewed-By: Richard Lau Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson Reviewed-By: James M Snell --- doc/guides/backporting-to-release-lines.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/backporting-to-release-lines.md b/doc/guides/backporting-to-release-lines.md index 75e16f410b3f28..389c979e2eea67 100644 --- a/doc/guides/backporting-to-release-lines.md +++ b/doc/guides/backporting-to-release-lines.md @@ -24,6 +24,20 @@ require that commits mature in the Current release for at least 2 weeks before they can be landed in an LTS staging branch. Only after "maturation" will those commits be cherry-picked or backported. +## How to label backport issues and PRs? + +For the following labels, the `N` in `vN.x` refers to the major release number. + +| Label | Description | +| ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| backport-blocked-vN.x | PRs that should land on the vN.x-staging branch but are blocked by another PR's pending backport. | +| backport-open-vN.x | Indicate that the PR has an open backport. | +| backport-requested-vN.x | PRs awaiting manual backport to the vN.x-staging branch. | +| backported-to-vN.x | PRs backported to the vN.x-staging branch. | +| baking-for-lts | PRs that need to wait before landing in a LTS release. | +| lts-watch-vN.x | PRs that may need to be released in vN.x. | +| vN.x | Issues that can be reproduced on vN.x or PRs targeting the vN.x-staging branch. | + ## How to submit a backport pull request For the following steps, let's assume that a backport is needed for the v10.x