Re: Proposal: Enhancing Commit Tagging for Stable Kernel Branches

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 07:04:34PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 04:40:01PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 04:34:19PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> 
> > > I'm very surprised that it didn't cross anyone's mind yet that
> > > contributors and maintainers don't bother using Cc: stable because they
> > > don't care about stable for various reasons. So the behaviour is nether
> > > good nor bad and doesn't have to be penalized.
> 
> > Totally true.  The first rule of the stable tree is "it will not put
> > additional burden on any developer or maintainer that doesn't want to
> > participate in it."  So if you don't want to deal with it, wonderful,
> > don't take anything and just don't worry about it.
> 
> FWIW as we've discussed before I stopped adding explicit CCs for the
> most part since AUTOSEL is picking up far more than I ever would so it
> doesn't seem worth the effort to filter which is a variation on what
> Alexandre mentioned.

I am still tagging cc: stable for fixes that I truly believe belong in
stable, but otherwise I let AUTOSEL do whatever it wants because I do
not own stable tree. I however also believe that AUTOSEL picks up much
more than it should. Maybe if "Fixes: " tags commit older than <age> (2
years?) it should ignore such fixes?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry