Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] stable kernel process automation and improvement

Mark Brown
2019-07-08T14:50:50Z

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On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 07:05:44AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 7/8/19 5:37 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I'm not sure how many people will actually report problems they
> > experience upstream rather than just fixing things locally and
> > just moving on. The more code is the more likely it is that one
> > of the users will report things.

> I for my part will most definitely report any such problems, since each
> regression in stable releases is used as argument against merging
> stable releases (even if the regression rate is negligible), and I am
> very interested in getting that regression rate as close to zero as
> possible. Reporting each and every regression is an essential part
> of that.

Me too - but I'm pretty sure for example most of the product
teams I've worked with at consumer electronics companies would
never even consider it.

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