On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 11:30 +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> Agree ... that's why we need a responsible maintainer, and I believe 
> it would be an even more onerous task than running the trivial tree.

I think any scripted change like this would need to come *from* a
responsible maintainer, not *through* one. I'm not sure we really need
a 'process' for it other than someone with sufficient credibility
persuading Linus to run the script.

Alternatively, it isn't *that* hard for someone like Josh (who was the
one who said he often finds himself doing this kind of thing) to create
a git tree which runs the script *regularly* on the tip of Linus' tree
(or linux-next), creating a new version of the commit which can be
pulled at that moment.

Then it should just be case of of asking Stephen to "put this tree last
in linux-next", and Linus to "pull this one last, right before
releasing -rc1". And getting the timing right for the script to run.

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