[Ksummit-2013-discuss] [ATTEND] DT, maintainership, development process

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 02:18:43PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:49:40AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 01:36:19PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> > > Would it be possible for patches developers think are candidates for
> > > -stable inclusion be sent to the stable mailinglist before they are in
> > > tree?  Then, if the stable maintainers feel it's appropriate for
> > > -stable, they'll give and 'Acked-by: <...> # v3.10.x'.  At that point,
> > > the subsystem maintainer can put it in a branch to be pulled into Linus'
> > > tree and then into the appropriate -stable tree.
> > 
> > I personally don't have the time to review such things to provide an
> > Acked-by: line.  
> 
> Right, I was referring to the whole -stable team.

For the 3.10, 3.0, and 3.4 kernels right now, that team consists of "me,
myself, and I".  :(

And before anyone asks, yes, I have asked for help, and am getting a
little bit of help from some people in finding patches to apply and
testing the -rc kernels, which is better than it used to be.  But for
the most part, everyone is busy with their "real jobs" to deal with
stable kernel stuff, which is understandable.

thanks,

greg k-h