From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7896FC5519F for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D2D22240 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="LkO+4DRs" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726086AbgKROJ4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:09:56 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:45228 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725947AbgKROJ4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:09:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (c-73-47-72-35.hsd1.nh.comcast.net [73.47.72.35]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7AF6921D40; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:09:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1605708595; bh=XaoMyPznMWDK/EOZjQkHKMaMWhsHDD9HrZoAO1RXHcc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=LkO+4DRsdaGssHF+IYYUU2YB5Dt17B/tEK0BzfLw3jQiwj6CXu5l7QYSsn8/ShKfO bBk0U3yBqqoZqCUDHuEuoqXEHjbuQEG/nYFCJ+m67Hg+MFhbqjrtqrAJFLIY13B+DH hB0CgpCVf23uF2F8S48GGG+mf9GGKKN3Z1T42HGk= Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:09:53 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Christoph Biedl Cc: Hussam Al-Tayeb , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Suggestion: Lengthen the review period for stable releases from 48 hours to 7 days. Message-ID: <20201118140953.GC629656@sasha-vm> References: <17c526d0c5f8ed8584f7bee9afe1b73753d1c70b.camel@gmx.com> <20201117080141.GA6275@amd> <1605651898@msgid.manchmal.in-ulm.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1605651898@msgid.manchmal.in-ulm.de> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:29:16PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: >On the other hand the pace of the stable patches became fairly highı, so >during a week of -rc review a *lot* of them will queue up and I predict >we'll see requests for fast-laning some of them. Also, a release would >immediately be followed by the next -rc review period, a procedure that >gives me a bad feeling. Keep in mind that the stable tree derives itself from Linus's tree - it's not a development tree on it's own and we don't control how many fixes flow into Linus's tree (and as a result into the stable tree). This means that it doesn't matter how long the review window is open for, you'll be getting the same time to review a single patch - whether we do 200 patches twice a week or 400 patches once a week. We can't create time by moving review windows around. -- Thanks, Sasha