[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Bug-introducing patches

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:22:10AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> Not to excuse rudeness, we always try to be polite on lists when this
> happens, but -next builds on Australian time, so when we find and fix
> an issue there can be up to 24h before it propagates.  In that time,
> particularly if it's a stupid bug, it gets picked up and flagged by a
> number of self contained 0day type projects and possibly a couple of
> coccinelle type ones as well.  It does get a bit repetitive for
> maintainers to receive and have to respond to 4 or 5 bug reports for
> something they just fixed ...
> 

Figure out how people are generating the bug reports and do it yourself
pre-emptively.  That's what other trees do.

regards,
dan carpenter