Re: Proposed stable release changes

[Willy Tarreau]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 09:42:48AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Personally, I still let my stable patches that go into later -rc sit
> in linux-next for a few days before pushing them to mainline. I may even
> wait for the next -rc to push it just to make sure the patch wont cause
> more issues. But I know others that just send the fix directly to
> mainline without going through linux-next. Those, I would think, are the
> most prone to cause issues in stable.

This is also what I suspected though I have no data to confirm or deny that.
If this happens to be the case, maybe then there should be some barrier such
as :
  - everything merged at -rc4 or before gets backported after the next -rc
  - everything from -rc5 and upper waits for next -rc1 unless tagged urgent ?

Willy

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