Re: KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump thecc: stable tag

[Rob Landley]

On 07/15/2013 02:27:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> Before the "3.10.1-stable review" thread degenerated into a  
> disagreement
> about habits of politeness, there were some solid points being made
> which, I think, bear consideration and which may now be lost.
>
> The problem, as JiÅÃ Kosina put is succinctly is that the  
> distributions
> are finding stable less useful because it contains to much stuff  
> they'd
> classify as not stable material.

Does anybody actually review hundred-patch dumps for stable stuff? I  
don't. Any regression fixes or security fixes are buried in 90% chaff.  
"Could be improved" is why you upgrade to new versions, yet "random  
improvements that we don't think will break anything' is the vast  
majority of stable.

Bar's a bit low for my tastes. Oh well.

Rob--
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