Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The amount of -stable emails

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 12:28:28PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 17:08:44 +0100
>Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

[snip]

>Now, if something is marked for stable, I really don't want to be bothered
>that it made it to a stable tree. If I marked something for stable, sending
>me an email that it was applied is rather redundant.

So I'd love to cancel the "Added to the stable tree" mails. I honestly
don't even know why they go out: my understanding that it was for
historical reasons where someone asked for those in the past, but I
really feel bad about sending those out because to me they are pure
spam.

>> One thing I'd really like to see there would be to avoid sending each
>> patch separately for every stable version, that just blows up the mail
>> volume hugely especially for those of us with subsystems that carry a
>> lot of quirks.  I'm sure the range of versions something is being pulled
>> back to could be expressed in a single mail instead, it's always some
>> range of versions being processed en masse rather than just a single
>> version.  The per version cover letter is more useful for replying with
>> test results but that doesn't need the whole series.
>
>Yes, I agree that a digest of all the autoselects would be good.

I actually did that earlier today!

See the latest batch of AUTOSELs: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20250805130945.471732-1-sashal@kernel.org/T/#t

Instead of one mail per tree, the subject line contains the range of
trees it applies to.

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Thanks,
Sasha