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    SubjectRe: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline
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    On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
    > On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >
    >> They can be useful for "local" notes (they can be very powerful for
    >> certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me.
    >
    > Perhaps notes can be used as that reminder to send to stable. Tag a
    > commit with a note, and have some automated process that monitors
    > Linus's tree and when a commit makes it in, automate an email to stable
    > with said commit.
    >
    > -- Steve

    Including quick sanity tests to see if these patches apply cleanly to
    stable releases in this automation process will help weed out patches
    that don't apply as is to stable releases.

    -- Shuah


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