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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-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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