Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] agents: add a skill to determine stable tags

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 04:05:27 EST


On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 08:56:24AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 10/20/26 18:16, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Whether a fix needs a stable tag, and which releases it should reach, is
> > decided by hand and is often missed or left too broad. Add a skill that
> > [...]
>
> Thx for this!
>
> > +
> > +Judge a change by what it does, not by how its description labels it: a
> > +"cleanup" that releases a resource on an error path fixes a leak. In practice,
> > +the stable trees take:
> > +
>
> Shouldn't something like "It fixes a user-reported regression" be in
> here -- maybe even at the top of the list given that "no regressions" is
> our #1 rule?

Sure, that would be nice too, an add-on-patch for it perhaps?

thanks,

greg k-h