[Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

[Shuah Khan]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at 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