Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:57:46 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:50:23PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> In any case, I've been very conservative in _not_ pushing bug fixes to
> Linus after -rc3 (unless they are fixing a regression or the bug fix
> is super-serious); I'd much rather have them cook in the ext4 tree
> where they can get a lot more testing (a full regression test run for
> ext4 takes over 24 hours), and for people trying out linux-next.
> 
> Maybe the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of holding back
> changes and trying to avoid the risk of introducing regressions;
> perhaps this would be a good topic to discuss at the Kernel Summit.

Yes, there does seem to be a certain ebb and flow as to how strict
the rules are about what should go into stable, what fixes are "good
enough" for a given -rc, how tight those rule are in -rc2 vs in -rc6,
etc.  If nothing else, a good repetitive flogging and a restatement of
the One True Way to handle these things might be worthwhile once again...

John
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