Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Nov 11 2009 - 16:44:38 EST


On 11/11/2009 12:14 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, James Bottomley wrote:
>>
>> So, now that you're showing an interest in all of this, how about I send
>> you the final update hook to add to your tree? It will produce less
>> latency than the cron job I run on kernel.org to pull your tree into one
>> I have here ever twenty minutes or so and run the hooks.
>
> Quite frankly, I'd much rather not run hooks on my tree directly. The less
> that can possibly get screwed up with my kernel.org tree, the happier I
> am. So in many ways, I really prefer the whole "done separately by others"
> approach.
>
> But hey, send the hook to me, and I'll think about it.
>

One thing we might be able to do is to create an "exploder hook" on your
tree - something that asynchronously broadcasts a notification that
anyone can subscribe to.

-hpa

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