Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

Mark Brown
2013-07-15T20:15:38Z

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:45:17PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Have Greg, or whoever, change his script to not take commits marked for
> stable, but instead, forward the commit to the maintainer. Or as it
> already does today, to everyone on the Cc, and -by: tags. Change the
> script from being "stable review" to say "Look to see what you want, and
> resend what is needed for stable".

This sounds fairly close what James was suggesting, though with central
automation of the mail it out stage.

> Then the maintainer needs to look at all the patches that were marked
> for stable, and resend them to Greg saying which ones should go into
> stable.

One thing I don't particularly like about this is having to resend the
patches in response to mail; it seems cumbersome to do that rather than
reply to mail or something. Requiring a positive acknowledgement or
action seems useful but the particular one seems a bit annoying; I'd
rather either just send the patch as part of the mark for stable
workflow or ack something in mail.

> Also, we could mandate that the maintainers do the backports too.

That's what happens already isn't it?

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