[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:42:04PM +0200, Jiri Kosina 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

Just for historical interest, there was extensive discussion of this
topic last year:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/LKS/LKS2013Topic/000014a.html

The resulting discussion at LKS is recorded here:

http://lwn.net/Articles/571980/

							Thanx, Paul