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

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 01:59:10PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 01:14:24PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > 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.
>
>I can suggest that you write them to a public-inbox feed instead. We can then
>pull that into lore so they still show up for people performing context
>queries, but we don't ever deliver them via SMTP.

I wish I knew who actually uses it, so maybe we could just drop it
altogether :/

This predates the lei/lore days, so I'm a git concerned about making a
change like that if anyone is actually relying on those mails.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha