linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1307121146040.29788@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:46:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > Maybe the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of holding back
> > changes and trying to avoid the risk of introducing regressions;
> > perhaps this would be a good topic to discuss at the Kernel Summit.
> 
> Bah, I sent out a similar email about discussing this at KS too. Before
> seeing this one.

If this is going to be picked up as a discussion topic at KS, I believe it 
can be easily merged with my "stable: too pushy maintainers" proposal I 
sent a couple days ago.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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