From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 23:11:43 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag To: James Bottomley Cc: ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1373916476.2748.69.camel@dabdike> (from James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com on Mon Jul 15 14:27:56 2013) Message-Id: <1374379903.3719.25@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/15/2013 02:27:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > Before the "3.10.1-stable review" thread degenerated into a > disagreement > about habits of politeness, there were some solid points being made > which, I think, bear consideration and which may now be lost. > > The problem, as Jiří Kosina put is succinctly is that the > distributions > are finding stable less useful because it contains to much stuff > they'd > classify as not stable material. Does anybody actually review hundred-patch dumps for stable stuff? I don't. Any regression fixes or security fixes are buried in 90% chaff. "Could be improved" is why you upgrade to new versions, yet "random improvements that we don't think will break anything' is the vast majority of stable. Bar's a bit low for my tastes. Oh well. Rob