Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stablekernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 23:11 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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 review what I can, but recently have often missed the 2 day review
period.

Review from the authors and maintainers is probably more valuable than
that from generalists on the stable list.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part