Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752832AbZKLOlF (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:41:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752648AbZKLOlD (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:41:03 -0500 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:52904 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751969AbZKLOlC (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:41:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question From: James Bottomley To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Greg KH , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: References: <20091110034831.GB26809@elte.hu> <20091110041452.GA25575@suse.de> <1257863388.4184.220.camel@mulgrave.site> <20091110193747.GB12686@suse.de> <1257965424.11985.9.camel@mulgrave.site> <1257970010.11985.17.camel@mulgrave.site> <4AFB301C.3050800@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:41:03 -0600 Message-Id: <1258036863.2760.0.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1417 Lines: 34 On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 13:52 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > > Quite frankly, I'd much rather not run hooks on my tree directly. The less > > > that can possibly get screwed up with my kernel.org tree, the happier I > > > am. So in many ways, I really prefer the whole "done separately by others" > > > approach. > > > > > > But hey, send the hook to me, and I'll think about it. > > > > One thing we might be able to do is to create an "exploder hook" on your > > tree - something that asynchronously broadcasts a notification that > > anyone can subscribe to. > > Yeah, some minimal hook just informing any interested party about "ok, > Linus pushed to the main tree" (and in fact, perhaps generalized so that > you can show that you are interested in some particular branch of _any_ > tree that people can just add to their trees) certainly doesn't sound like > a bad idea. > > That way we can get rid of "polling by cron", without having to have the > tree owners themselves care about who is interested in exactly what.. Sure, I'd like to hook into this rather than use a polling cron job. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/