linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:24:12 -0400
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable
 kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

> I review what I can, but recently have often missed the 2 day review
> period.
>
> Review from the authors and maintainers is probably more valuable than
> that from generalists on the stable list.

>From point of subsystem developers view, the problem is there are too many
stable branches. I can't memorize what is different each other.
Currently www.kernel.org
lists two stable and five longterm branches. Who know all of them?
Eventually I only
checked them when I have enough much spare time.
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