[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz> wrote:
> I am a responsible maintainer of kernels for SUSE enterprise products. As
> such, I am dealing with -stable trees on a regular basis. Hence, if there
> is any discussion related to -stable tree process going to happen, I am
> highly interested in that discussion.
>
> I'd like to re-iterate my usual question / discussion topic of
> responsibility distribution for -stable patches; my proposal again would
> be to align the -stable tree workflow with Linus' tree workflow -- i.e.
> subsystem maintainers preparing 'for-stable' branches and sending pull
> requests to the stable team, instead of rather random cherry-picking of
> the patches from the air as they fly by the stable team members.
>
> Suggested participants: stable team, major distro kernel maintainers

I'd be very interested in this as well, since Fedora continually
rebases to the newer stable releases.

josh