state of your old patches to Superseded.
</p>
+<p>
+Some companies' mail server automatically append a legal disclaimer,
+usually containing something along the lines of "The information in this
+email is confidential" and "distribution is strictly prohibited".<br/>
+These legal notices prevent us from being able to accept your patch,
+rendering the whole process pointless. Please make sure these are
+disabled before sending your patches. (Note that you may need to contact
+your email administrator for this.)
+</p>
+
<h2 id="reviewing">Reviewing Patches</h2>
<p>
Thus, drop the line <strong>only</strong> if you want to cancel the nomination.
</p>
+Alternatively, if one uses the "Fixes" tag as described in the "Patch formatting"
+section, it nominates a commit for all active stable branches that include the
+commit that is referred to.
+
<h2 id="criteria">Criteria for accepting patches to the stable branch</h2>
Mesa has a designated release manager for each stable branch, and the release