Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline

[Willy Tarreau]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:43:09PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 12:11 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > People mark stable patches that way already today with a:
> > 	Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # delay for 3.12-rc4
> > or some such wording.  I take those and don't apply them until the noted
> > release happens, so you can do this if needed.
> 
> I guess the thing is, are stable patches prone to regressions. Do we
> just do that for patches that we think are too complex and may cause
> some harm. Of course, there's the question about having a clue about
> what patches might cause harm or not.

We'd probably better switch the tag to be "# now" to imply that we don't
want to delay them, and that by default those merged prior to rc4 are all
postponed. I suspect that the switching could be mostly automated this way,
avoiding to add burden to Greg :

  - if commit ID >= -rc4
    move to immediate queue, it's a "critical" fix as per Linus' rules

  - if Cc: stable line has "now" at the end, move to immediate queue as
    the maintainer takes this reponsibility ;

  - otherwise move to the next .2 queue.

Willy

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