From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.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 08:48:03 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1809050838570.15880@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180904213340.GD16300@sasha-vm>
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, Sasha Levin via Ksummit-discuss wrote:
> This is exactly what would happen if you ask Greg to go on some sort of
> a schedule - he'll just defer the .Z+1 commits to what would have been
> the .Z+2 release, so you don't really win anything by moving to a
> stricter schedule.
You potentially do win one thing, and that's review (or at least
possibility of review).
With current cadence, I'd put all my bets on the fact that everybody is
just completely ignoring the e-mails about patches being queued for stable
inclusion. It's just way, way too many of them, it's a neverending,
contignuous, overwhelming stream.
If this would be happening at smaller cadence, chances of people (original
patch author, reviewers and maintainer) actually investing brain energy
into evaluating whether particular patch is suitable for particular stable
without introducing backporting regression would be much higher.
Also, it's not only the cadence, but the patch selection criteria that
contributes to killing the review of stable patches; the bar for stable
tree acceptance is much lower than it used to be (really, just look at the
criteria formulated in stable-kernel-rules.rst and then match them against
the patches that actually land in the tree); so we'd need both, otherwise
I think the trend of distros moving away from stable is inevitable (as "no
review" basically equals "we're not obsessed about regressions", and
distros don't want that, I think).
But then, yes, it might be that that's actually not a problem :)
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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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 [this message]
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
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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