[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow
Jiri Kosina
jikos at kernel.org
Wed Aug 3 13:59:53 UTC 2016
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, James Bottomley wrote:
> This isn't a viable approach. Firstly stable review is less thorough
> than upstream review because the review mostly goes "yes, I already
> reviewed this in upstream".
Which is exactly the problem I am trying to bring more attention to.
> Secondly, if the upstream review didn't catch the problems why would we
> suddenly catch them in a stable review?
The patch was pretty fine for upstream, as it fixed a real bug there. But
the buggy code wasn't present in -stable.
> The fact that possibly no-one reviewed the upstream patch indicates the
> need for a better upstream process
Again, that's not really the issue here. The patch was perfectly valid
upstream.
Thanks,
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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