Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:00:43 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
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>
Subject: Re: AUTOSEL process
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On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 10:04:23AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 11:25 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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 immediately
>> >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] anyway
>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 fixes,
>but somehow, most of the developers on this thread are fs developers.
>
>BTW, the story of filesystem testing in stable trees has also been improving
>since your last appearance in LSFMM.

Happy to stop by and collaborate!

I'll also be in Vancouver the whole week (though not in LSF/MM), so if
you'd want to find time for a workshop around this topic with interested
parties we can look into that too.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha