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, 15 Jul 2013 17:07:25 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	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

On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 21:15 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> One thing I don't particularly like about this is having to resend the
> patches in response to mail; it seems cumbersome to do that rather than
> reply to mail or something.  Requiring a positive acknowledgement or
> action seems useful but the particular one seems a bit annoying; I'd
> rather either just send the patch as part of the mark for stable
> workflow or ack something in mail.

A reply to the email before it goes in would work as well. I'm just
saying that the stable tag alone should not be the criteria of what goes
into stable.

> 
> > Also, we could mandate that the maintainers do the backports too.
> 
> That's what happens already isn't it?

Only if it breaks. But I've been quite impressed at a lot of the patches
that Greg seems to get working himself. He gets things backported that
don't look to be automated. I guess if it's trivial enough he does the
work himself. But I've had a few commits where I thought for sure I
would get a slew of "FAILED to apply" stable messages that ended up
going in without my help.

-- Steve

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