From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755764Ab1IPSfc (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:35:32 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:33037 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285Ab1IPSfb (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:35:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:35:16 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Greg KH Cc: Josh Boyer , andi@firstfloor.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: stable patch queues and submission Message-ID: <20110916183516.GA4121@1wt.eu> References: <20110916181307.GW10700@zod.bos.redhat.com> <20110916182350.GA7315@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110916182350.GA7315@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:23:50PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > With kernel.org being down, the stable@kernel.org list is no longer > > working. This leaves me wondering if we should send patches directly to > > the various stable tree maintainers with [stable] in the prefix and > > linux-kernel CC'd, or if the stable queues are even being maintained > > during the outage. > > No, please do not, unless you need something "special", and even then, > please cc: lkml and the developers so it's not lost. > > > Does anyone have a preference or suggestion on how to continue stable > > releases until the list comes back? (I'm assuming 'wait' isn't really a > > best all around option.) > > Wait and continue to add the marking to your patches, my scripts are > still running and pulling the patches out and they are going into the > stable queue just fine. The queue just isn't public at the moment due > to kernel.org being out. I was thinking about an alternative if that can help. If the mails are sent to our addresses followed by "+stable", they're easy to filter out to another mailbox (eg: "willy+stable@1wt.eu"). But there are a number of other reviewers on stable@k.o who provide a lot of value with their reviews, and not having them check the patches could easily lead to some nasty patches leaking into stable. Regards, Willy