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:	Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:09:49 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
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 Sat, 2013-07-20 at 23:11 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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 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.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg

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