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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Stable trees and
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On Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:54:14 +0200,
Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:46:26PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >On Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:41:56 +0200,
> >Sasha Levin wrote:
> >> So right now I'm lagging a few weeks behind upstream. If I limit it to
> >> patches that are at least 1 month old will that help with your concerns?
> >
> >A few weeks after rc-release or the final release?
> >If it's the latter, that should be fine.
> 
> A few weeks after a given patch was merged upstream. The tricky part is
> if I wait a month from final release then the relevant stable tree is
> already EOL.

But it's still good for LTS, right?
For the normal stable, we can live without such non-urgent fixes.
And for LTS, we can push the fix once after it's confirmed to be
really stable enough.


thanks,

Takashi