Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [2/4] Ensure recent mainline regression are fixed in latest stable series

Greg KH
2024-06-13T11:21:18Z

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 01:02:44PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-06-13 at 10:32 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> >
> > I know I'm asking a lot here, especially from the file system folks due
> > to the testing this will require. And I fully understand the
> > participation in stable maintenance always has been and still is
> > optional for mainline developers -- and that this would change it.
> >
> > But I'm bringing this up anyway, as users afaics expect "fix recently
> > introduced problems with new minor releases'
>
> You are saying that users can have it both ways: not test each release,
> but actually get fixes in each release...
>
> So no, I strongly object to putting *even* more work onto maintainers,
> basically making us all responsible for stable releases.

I also agree. Remember, the FIRST rule of us doing a stable release at
all was that we would NOT put any extra work on any maintainer or
developer that did not want to do anything extra. Let's not change that
please.

thanks,

greg k-h