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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Hussam Al-Tayeb <ht990332@gmx.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Lengthen the review period for stable releases from 48 hours to 7 days.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:01:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201117080141.GA6275@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17c526d0c5f8ed8584f7bee9afe1b73753d1c70b.camel@gmx.com>

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On Sat 2020-11-14 17:40:36, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> Hello. I would like to suggest lengthening the review period for stable
> releases from 48 hours to 7 days.
> The rationale is that 48 hours is not enough for people to test those
> stable releases and make sure there are no regressions for particular
> workflows.

You should probably cc stable list and Greg with this.

And yes, I believe that would be good idea.

Plus the period is very often shorter than advertised, which might be
also good to fix.

Best regards,
								pavel

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-17  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-14 15:40 Suggestion: Lengthen the review period for stable releases from 48 hours to 7 days Hussam Al-Tayeb
2020-11-14 19:16 ` Hussam Al-Tayeb
2020-11-17  8:01 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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