Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jul 12 2013 - 18:18:13 EST
On 07/12/2013 12:53 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> They can be useful for "local" notes (they can be very powerful for
>> certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me.
>
> Perhaps notes can be used as that reminder to send to stable. Tag a
> commit with a note, and have some automated process that monitors
> Linus's tree and when a commit makes it in, automate an email to stable
> with said commit.
>
Didn't Linus just say he won't do that?
Either way it would seem to fail to accomplish the record-keeping aspect.
-hpa
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