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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:32:02AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> I was told that these enhancements really needed to get into v5.8,
> otherwise the OSV intercepts will be much further out. Certainly not of
> concern to you and not your problem, I am just answering your question
> as an explanation for my goal for inclusion into v5.8.

I believe under "OSV" fall distros too and I, with my distro hat on, can
tell you that at least for us, SUSE, it suffices if the patches are in a
maintainer tree on their way upstream to start backporting them.

Which means, if they get queued in tip after 5.8 releases, that would be
like a couple of weeks later.

Dunno if the other OSVs you work with have such relaxed requirements
- just pointing out that if they do, a couple of weeks later is not a
whole cycle later.

> It seems inappropriate that I have the title of maintainer and not be
> able to have patches considered for inclusion during an entire release
> cycle.

Well, we try very hard to be fair when looking at patchsets. In your
case, I already took a patchset from you this cycle and there are other
patchsets waiting for a lot longer than yours - even patchsets from your
colleagues at Intel.

So I understand that you think it might be inappropriate but please try
to understand it also from our standpoint in that we try to round-robin
between everyone as fair as possible.

So I will try to look at yours in the next days but I cannot promise you
anything.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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