From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 23:06:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1374379576.3719.24@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1373922593.2062.36.camel@joe-AO722> (from joe@perches.com on Mon Jul 15 16:09:53 2013)
On 07/15/2013 04:09:53 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > It may not be efficient for maintainers, but as maintainers we
> should
> > spend a bit more time on stable releases.
>
> The MAINTAINERS file specifies a difference between a
> section that's Maintained vs Supported.
>
> Do please remember there's a difference between a maintainer
> and someone that's paid to support a particular thing.
>
> My feeling is if you're a maintainer you can just say
> "use the current version" and not spend even a moments
> effort or thought on backports.
>
> When you're getting paid however, different issues...
Then you get to say "you're not a customer of my company, I don't have
to listen to you at all". (See Renesas with sh4 circa 2010.)
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-21 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-15 19:27 KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag James Bottomley
2013-07-15 19:45 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 19:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 20:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 21:09 ` Joe Perches
2013-07-15 21:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 21:34 ` Joe Perches
2013-07-21 4:06 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2013-07-15 21:52 ` Willy Tarreau
2013-07-15 20:15 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-15 21:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-15 20:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-15 22:04 ` David Woodhouse
2013-07-15 22:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-15 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 23:22 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-07-16 0:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 0:21 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 0:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-16 15:50 ` Paul Gortmaker
2013-07-15 20:20 ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-15 21:44 ` Greg KH
2013-07-15 21:55 ` Greg KH
2013-07-15 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-15 23:08 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 0:40 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-16 9:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-15 22:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 0:06 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 2:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 2:41 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 3:27 ` Dave Airlie
2013-07-16 3:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 4:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 6:23 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 6:10 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-16 6:28 ` Greg KH
2013-07-15 22:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-15 23:40 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-15 23:59 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 2:30 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 6:13 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 9:11 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-16 16:36 ` Greg KH
2013-07-17 3:53 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-17 4:24 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 5:17 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-16 6:20 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 7:43 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " James Bottomley
2013-07-16 9:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-16 9:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-16 12:43 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 16:35 ` Greg KH
2013-07-16 23:15 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-07-16 13:14 ` Josh Boyer
2013-07-17 15:08 ` John W. Linville
2013-07-18 7:45 ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-16 10:02 ` Jan Kara
2013-07-16 6:24 ` David Lang
2013-07-16 16:45 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
2013-07-16 2:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-16 9:53 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-21 4:11 ` Rob Landley
2013-07-21 15:09 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Ben Hutchings
2013-07-22 21:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-07-23 2:29 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-23 2:29 ` Li Zefan
2013-07-23 2:40 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-07-23 2:40 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-07-23 2:47 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-23 2:57 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-07-23 2:57 ` Myklebust, Trond
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