linux-kernel - Re: KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

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Message-Id: <1374379903.3719.25@driftwood>
Date:	Sat, 20 Jul 2013 23:11:43 -0500
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the
 cc: stable tag

On 07/15/2013 02:27:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> Before the "3.10.1-stable review" thread degenerated into a  
> disagreement
> about habits of politeness, there were some solid points being made
> which, I think, bear consideration and which may now be lost.
> 
> The problem, as Jiří Kosina put is succinctly is that the  
> distributions
> are finding stable less useful because it contains to much stuff  
> they'd
> classify as not stable material.

Does anybody actually review hundred-patch dumps for stable stuff? I  
don't. Any regression fixes or security fixes are buried in 90% chaff.  
"Could be improved" is why you upgrade to new versions, yet "random  
improvements that we don't think will break anything' is the vast  
majority of stable.

Bar's a bit low for my tastes. Oh well.

Rob--
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