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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@Hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
	<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Stable trees and release time
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 14:16:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180905131643.GM9781@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a25761a-c640-4eb2-952c-4bcd91da28a2@email.android.com>

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On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 01:24:18PM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:

> I absolutely agree.  That's why I said our process is expediency
> based:  you have to trade off the value of applying the patch vs the
> probability of introducing bugs.  However the maintainers are mostly
> considering this which is why stable is largely free from trivial but
> pointless patches.  The rule should be: if it doesn't fix a user
> visible bug, it doesn't go into stable.

It's not just maintainers any more - in particular we've got Sasha's
neural net thing picking patches as well and it's substantially more
trigger happy than at least I am.  People do get a chance to review what
it's picking but that's different to maintainers picking things.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-05 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-04 20:58 [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Stable trees and release time Laura Abbott
2018-09-04 21:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 14:31   ` Greg KH
2018-09-04 21:22 ` Justin Forbes
2018-09-05 14:42   ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 15:10     ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 15:10     ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 16:19     ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-05 18:31     ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-05 21:23     ` Justin Forbes
2018-09-06  2:17     ` Eduardo Valentin
2018-09-04 21:33 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-04 21:55   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-04 22:03     ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-04 23:14       ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-04 23:43         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-05  1:17           ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-06  3:56             ` Benjamin Gilbert
2018-09-04 21:58   ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-05  4:53     ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05  6:48   ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05  8:16     ` Jan Kara
2018-09-05  8:32       ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05  8:56         ` Greg KH
2018-09-05  9:13           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-05  9:33             ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 10:11           ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 14:44             ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-05  9:58         ` James Bottomley
2018-09-05 10:47           ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 12:24             ` James Bottomley
2018-09-05 12:53               ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 13:05                 ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 13:15                   ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 14:00                     ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 14:06                     ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 21:02                       ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 16:39                 ` James Bottomley
2018-09-05 17:06                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2018-09-05 17:33                   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-05 13:03               ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 13:27                 ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 14:05                   ` Greg KH
2018-09-05 15:54                     ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 16:19                       ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 16:26                         ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 19:09                           ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 20:18                             ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 20:33                               ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-05 14:20                 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 14:30                   ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 14:41                     ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 14:46                       ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 14:54                         ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 15:12                           ` Takashi Iwai
2018-09-05 15:19                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-05 15:29                             ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 13:16               ` Mark Brown [this message]
2018-09-05 14:27                 ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 14:50                   ` Mark Brown
2018-09-05 15:00                     ` Sasha Levin
2018-09-05 10:28       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-05 11:20         ` Jiri Kosina
2018-09-05 14:41           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-05 15:18             ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-06  8:48               ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-06 12:47                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-04 21:49 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-04 22:06   ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-04 23:35     ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-05  1:45       ` Laura Abbott
2018-09-05  2:54         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-05  8:31           ` Jan Kara
2018-09-05  3:44 ` Eduardo Valentin

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