Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Wed Oct 29 2025 - 12:08:30 EST


Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg
> since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch
> maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> index 8e63d171767db8..7bd41838a5464f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> @@ -99,8 +99,10 @@ go out with a handful of known regressions, though, hopefully, none of them
> are serious.
>
> Once a stable release is made, its ongoing maintenance is passed off to the
> -"stable team," currently Greg Kroah-Hartman. The stable team will release
> -occasional updates to the stable release using the 9.x.y numbering scheme.
> +"stable team," currently consists of Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin. The
> +stable team will release occasional updates to the stable release using the
> +9.x.y numbering scheme.
> +
> To be considered for an update release, a patch must (1) fix a significant

Applied, thanks.

jon