Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:15:38 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
        ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable
 kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag
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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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