On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 21:42 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> I am a responsible maintainer of kernels for SUSE enterprise products. As 
> such, I am dealing with -stable trees on a regular basis. Hence, if there 
> is any discussion related to -stable tree process going to happen, I am 
> highly interested in that discussion.
> 
> I'd like to re-iterate my usual question / discussion topic of 
> responsibility distribution for -stable patches; my proposal again would 
> be to align the -stable tree workflow with Linus' tree workflow -- i.e. 
> subsystem maintainers preparing 'for-stable' branches and sending pull 
> requests to the stable team, instead of rather random cherry-picking of 
> the patches from the air as they fly by the stable team members.
> 
> Suggested participants: stable team, major distro kernel maintainers

I won't be able to participate as I'm going to other events which clash
with kernel summit this year.

The problem remains that most subsystem maintainers don't seem to want
to do this, so I think this would have to be opt-in for them.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Lowery's Law:
             If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.