Re: KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

Rob Landley
2013-07-21T04:11:43Z

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