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Message-ID: <8ebc783f95ee255d56372bfa59622bcb8cb4d79c.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:42:49 +0200
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        backports@...r.kernel.org,
        Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@...cle.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: add backporting and conflict resolution
 document

On Sat, 2023-10-14 at 13:48 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On 14/10/2023 11:43, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Hi Vegard,
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 05:24:31PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> > > I've now added Steven Rostedt and Willy Tarreau as well on the
> > > off-chance that they have something to say about it (Steven presented
> > > his conflict resolution method at Kernel Recipes and I think Willy is
> > > experienced with backporting), but this is in no way meant as pressure
> > > to review this patch. Here's a link to the top of the thread:
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230824092325.1464227-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com/
> 
> (Adding Ben Hutchings to Cc as well for the same reasons.)
[...]

I previously wrote some text for CIP about reviewing stable backports.
The "Read the code" section should be applicable to writing them as
well:
<https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/cipkernelmaintenance#read_the_code>.

I didn't compare with your text so it may be that you already covered
all those points.

Ben.


-- 
Ben Hutchings
Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, on joining IRC


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