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

["Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>]

Jiri,

>> You can also filter on stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, which is what I
>> do locally.
>> 
>> So filter away!
>
> The question is whether it's really worth all the e-mail traffic this is 
> generating, if people are just filtering those away.

If I explicitly tagged a commit for stable and it applies without any
problems, I would prefer not to hear about it.

When I am micromanaging a particular patch (critical bug or security
fix), I am much more likely to be poking around in git instead of
relying on email notifications to determine whether it has been applied
or not.

I do have interest in failures, however. Obviously the patch author
should be the first point of contact. But I do like to get copied on
backport failure notifications. While I may not act on these, I do like
having insight into what is going on...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen