linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/process: Add a maintainer handbook for KVM x86

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Date:   Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:17:14 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
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        Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>,
        Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...el.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/process: Add a maintainer handbook
 for KVM x86

On Fri, 2023-02-17 at 14:54 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> 
> +All topic branches, except for ``next`` and ``fixes``, are rolled into ``next``
> +via a cthulu merge on an as-needed basis, i.e. when a topic branch is updated.
> +As a result, force pushes to ``next`` are common.
> +

This makes 'next' an unfortunate name, doesn't it? Since branches
destined for "linux-next", which has been using that name for far
longer, have exactly the opposite expectation — that they have stable
commit IDs.

Would 'staging' not be more conventional for the branch you describe?

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