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From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
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On Tue, 2018-04-17 at 17:52 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> > How do I get the XFS folks to send their stuff to -stable? (we have
> > quite a few customers who use XFS)
> 
> If XFS (or *any* other subsystem) doesn't have enough manpower of upstream 
> maintainers to deal with stable, we just have to accept that and find an 
> answer to that.
> 
> If XFS folks claim that they don't have enough mental capacity to 
> create/verify XFS backports, I totally don't see how any kind of AI would 
> have.
> 
> If your business relies on XFS (and so does ours, BTW) or any other 
> subsystem that doesn't have enough manpower to care for stable, the proper 
> solution (and contribution) would be just bringing more people into the 
> XFS community.
> 
> To put it simply -- I don't think the simple lack of actual human 
> brainpower can be reasonably resolved in other way than bringing more of 
> it in.

Not to worry... soon enough it'll be submitting properly massaged
backports of the stuff it submitted upstream :)

	-Mike