linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

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Message-ID: <87frb1r8qq.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:08:29 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Documentation
 <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Workflows
 <workflows@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
 <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, Bagas
 Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as
 stable tree maintainer

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> writes:

> Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg
> since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch
> maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst.
>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> index 8e63d171767db8..7bd41838a5464f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> @@ -99,8 +99,10 @@ go out with a handful of known regressions, though, hopefully, none of them
>  are serious.
>  
>  Once a stable release is made, its ongoing maintenance is passed off to the
> -"stable team," currently Greg Kroah-Hartman. The stable team will release
> -occasional updates to the stable release using the 9.x.y numbering scheme.
> +"stable team," currently consists of Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin. The
> +stable team will release occasional updates to the stable release using the
> +9.x.y numbering scheme.
> +
>  To be considered for an update release, a patch must (1) fix a significant

Applied, thanks.

jon