Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 782B3C61DA3 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232638AbjBTXSh (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:18:37 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40162 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229560AbjBTXSd (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:18:33 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C849EB74A; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:18:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=MIME-Version:Content-Type:References: In-Reply-To:Date:Cc:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=EuB2MZW3ewuBWScaYLbjdtRWzMHJlBIQ9GzOU5/xIiY=; b=k/+Ud/Bdbk53EGQ9LryyzsoOpP CFiHq5DR6DlMSMPGNGyr5px7gR8y1RUGr4IeGWsbSsfdZsUtXW6VV0p4hm1H5r4kFVTc8IMY0A83L GXCFfsAvHhLgfubQHB5gYLkRLeWkdh2m+YuVgXrRnjzi/CR8R8ehJ+Lju8AWqK1YaCd41uv3d7JJG YhZU6LSVrwGkdODag0OTFMWDPUQktvSLKqJdRxfg78rIFKAC5WjewXgQLSTaF1Np2fvsC6ELvbi+F popCZ4YODzoEpAkOCnulIK01ecGCtbeRC2F8MwfXpTGUDv7MbGPNsracfzgwDAXC4zsvJlPSefOc9 gpQGIIjg==; Received: from [2001:8b0:10b:5::bb3] (helo=u3832b3a9db3152.infradead.org) by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1pUFPJ-00C6Ci-WA; Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:17:18 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation/process: Add a maintainer handbook for KVM x86 From: David Woodhouse To: Sean Christopherson , Paolo Bonzini Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , Sagi Shahar , Erdem Aktas , Peter Shier , Anish Ghulati , Oliver Upton , James Houghton , Anish Moorthy , Ben Gardon , David Matlack , Ricardo Koller , Axel Rasmussen , Aaron Lewis , Ashish Kalra , Babu Moger , Chao Gao , Chao Peng , Chenyi Qiang , Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito , Gavin Shan , Guang Zeng , Hou Wenlong , Jiaxi Chen , Jim Mattson , Jing Liu , Junaid Shahid , Kai Huang , Leonardo Bras , Like Xu , Li RongQing , "Maciej S . Szmigiero" , Maxim Levitsky , Michael Roth , Michal Luczaj , Mingwei Zhang , Nikunj A Dadhania , Paul Durrant , Peng Hao , Peter Gonda , Peter Xu , Robert Hoo , Suravee Suthikulpanit , Tom Lendacky , Vipin Sharma , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Wanpeng Li , Wei Wang , Xiaoyao Li , Yu Zhang , Zhenzhong Duan , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:17:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20230217225449.811957-3-seanjc@google.com> References: <20230217225449.811957-1-seanjc@google.com> <20230217225449.811957-3-seanjc@google.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="sha-256"; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="=-+IUYrPwwz1AcNS1jS7IE" User-Agent: Evolution 3.44.4-0ubuntu1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-+IUYrPwwz1AcNS1jS7IE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2023-02-17 at 14:54 -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote: >=20 > +All topic branches, except for ``next`` and ``fixes``, are rolled into `= `next`` > +via a cthulu merge on an as-needed basis, i.e. when a topic branch is up= dated. > +As a result, force pushes to ``next`` are common. > + This makes 'next' an unfortunate name, doesn't it? Since branches destined for "linux-next", which has been using that name for far longer, have exactly the opposite expectation =E2=80=94 that they have stab= le commit IDs. 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