From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 11:12:04 +0200 From: Mark Brown To: Jiri Kosina Message-ID: <20160709091204.GZ6247@sirena.org.uk> References: <5780334E.8020801@roeck-us.net> <2544945.WExZRG40u7@vostro.rjw.lan> <20160709000648.GG28589@dtor-ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AXeJgIDWTp8Ir+uz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --AXeJgIDWTp8Ir+uz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 10:37:12AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Also, do we have many changes that go to stable without maintainers=20 > > actually adding cc: stable annotation in mainline? > I have a feeling (but it's not backed up by any proper statistics) that w= e=20 > do have quite a high number of such patches. > Yes, sure, the maintainer is later CCed on the patch in the -stable queue= =20 > review patchbomb, but that's unfortunately in practice not the same thing= =20 > as if he actually actively considered the patch for inclusion himself. I'd expect to be copied in on any requests to add stable patches if they're not coming from a commit I made, not just on the patchbomb. I do agree that the patchbombs are sufficiently noisy to not be useful. --AXeJgIDWTp8Ir+uz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXgL/gAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQ0C4IAIZ+Rmeau93DdiJoFQITPWSe DOZraglu3KpMatJGWgExFLLbirmMerxy1QYJqbcwjh9u/SJm0oConbdNDPgwuDP+ NbzcwG7seiWe5BR6POHjt1TIj+KwxCKK8aDkdv4a9TE4OKLHIDoZSZAyxCk/JDGf glS31XSSgImWsdmFsXRk/t222XeJ5CoddPjpBbS5VvxpvzUVtc4eS/zHopoGmxEN XIKyLTd0kwN+DpsFWIqbI2csnt6S5TcwnnEjFUTlTplcHqH0Nz8T8q4aSUyoBO91 tKoxlDsm0dLWmYoQrkIyNeCc/QHvs79VimLN5zQXUFCeKqtNIZYNmE1OXtisEiE= =Zmi1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AXeJgIDWTp8Ir+uz--