[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow

[Zefan Li]

On 2016/7/10 21:33, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 07/10/2016 03:20 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2016, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>
>>> IMO, we need a really better QA before releasing stable trees.  They are
>>> all fixes, yes, but they aren't always fixes for stable trees, in
>>> reality.
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>> BTW, how much coverage does -stable get from Fengguang's 0day robot? I
>> think that as most of the stable tress don't really use the git workflow,
>> the trees are being pushed out to git.kernel.org only shortly before
>> actual release, so the 0day bot doesn't have enough time to catch up; but
>> I have to admit I don't really know how exactly the timing and flow of
>> patches works here.
>>
> 
> Greg tends to update his trees on a quite regular basis, as he applies patches.
> I don't really know for sure about the others, but overall my impression is
> that there tends to be a flurry of patches applied in the day before a stable
> release candidate is announced.
> 

I also set up a testing branch for 3.4.y so that Fengguang's 0day can test it
before I send out stable-rc1.