Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:09:49 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 23:11 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 07/15/2013 02:27:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > Before the "3.10.1-stable review" thread degenerated into a > > disagreement > > about habits of politeness, there were some solid points being made > > which, I think, bear consideration and which may now be lost. > > > > The problem, as Jiří Kosina put is succinctly is that the > > distributions > > are finding stable less useful because it contains to much stuff > > they'd > > classify as not stable material. > > Does anybody actually review hundred-patch dumps for stable stuff? [...]
I review what I can, but recently have often missed the 2 day review period.
Review from the authors and maintainers is probably more valuable than that from generalists on the stable list.
Ben.
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