From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DD3C433F5 for ; Fri, 27 May 2022 17:19:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1347698AbiE0RTu (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2022 13:19:50 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:58312 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S237226AbiE0RTu (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 May 2022 13:19:50 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E79B11E4AF; Fri, 27 May 2022 10:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDEA861E1F; Fri, 27 May 2022 17:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F019C385A9; Fri, 27 May 2022 17:19:48 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1653671988; bh=kgWWZEomee2aFr4sKl+JOxnlUFftSDDwRa7N5NxoCCQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=IG/wZuXYBTtGc2ChQEvMcrGDpZVs8zqx1XW1OAjcPtK1Y2Md+eHxxOSmvdfCK75Dx gv4YX0RoH52QT9yXEcORzy7YACR9YX6SZY4dh5oja1zJmhTuUoIDydD25jV7fF1R06 mY2ygo33ZJI1yJuITUlHJqzMYDE0TYtD/UAQ1CAmYzwu7Faxxa4mCL+cUo9in5HAJL kDbY4WfsEygMT0VgV5NrGiTAtRpnAXVXCM5a8MrAmfhn8Mjnql+zU7yIkebFy7qNW9 cZo46xpYAG0gG0TRLuc6v38etxkWss37UGWLvub/CNaXYGFK46tCV59NFAYXfLnFQL 5NENVFf6B3Aqg== Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 10:19:47 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" To: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Amir Goldstein , Dave Chinner , Christoph Hellwig , "Darrick J . Wong" , Theodore Ts'o , Adam Manzanares , Tyler Hicks , linux-xfs , fstests Subject: Re: [PATH 5.10 0/4] xfs stable candidate patches for 5.10.y (part 1) Message-ID: References: <20220525111715.2769700-1-amir73il@gmail.com> <20220527090838.GD3923443@dread.disaster.area> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: fstests@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 08:40:14AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 03:24:02PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 12:08 PM Dave Chinner wrote: > > > Backport candidate: yes. Severe: absolutely not. > > In the future, if you are writing a cover letter for an improvement > > series or internal pull request and you know there is a backport > > candidate inside, if you happen to remember to mention it, it would > > be of great help to me. > > Amir, since you wrote a tool enhancement to scrape for possible > candidates, *if* we defined some sort of meta-data to describe > this sort of stuff on the cover letter: > > Backport candidate: yes. Severe: absolutely not > > It would be useful when scraping. Therefore, leaving the effort > to try to backport / feasibility to others. This would be different > than a stable Cc tag, as those have a high degree of certainty. > > How about something like: > > Backport-candidate: yes > Impact: low This particular patch (because we've recently hit it internally too) would have been one of those: Stable-Soak: January 2022 patches that I was talking about. --D > Luis