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From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2023 10:04:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        stable@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@gmail.com>,
        "Luis R. Chamberlain" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 11:25=E2=80=AFPM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wr=
ote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 10:54:59AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
...
> >And yes, I am interested in contributing, but as I mentioned I think you=
 need to
> >first acknowledge that there is a problem, fix your attitude of immediat=
ely
> >pushing back on everything, and make it easier for people to contribute.
>
> I don't think we disagree that the process is broken: this is one of the
> reasons we went away from trying to support 6 year LTS kernels.
>
> However, we are not pushing back on ideas, we are asking for a hand in
> improving the process: we've been getting drive-by comments quite often,
> but when it comes to be doing the actual work people are quite reluctant
> to help.
>
> If you want to sit down and scope out initial set of work around tooling
> to help here I'm more than happy to do that: I'm planning to be both in
> OSS and LPC if you want to do it in person, along with anyone else
> interested in helping out.
>

Sasha,

Will you be able to attend a session on AUTOSEL on the overlap day
of LSFMM and OSS (May 10) or earlier?

We were going to discuss the topic of filesystems and stable trees [1] anyw=
ay
and I believe the discussion can be even more productive with you around.

I realize that the scope of AUTOSEL is wider than backporting filesystem fi=
xes,
but somehow, most of the developers on this thread are fs developers.

BTW, the story of filesystem testing in stable trees has also been improvin=
g
since your last appearance in LSFMM.

Thanks,
Amir.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CACzhbgSZUCn-az1e9uCh0+AO314+yq6M=
JTTbFt0Hj8SGCiaWjw@mail.gmail.com/