On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 09:42:04PM +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.

Likewise for me with my work hat on, I maintain a stable kernel for
Linaro for use on ARM systems.

> 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.

With my upstream hat on I have to say this seems like a lot of work and
probably means that most stable fixes that currently go out probably
just won't happen - there are quite a lot of stable trees being
maintained and I personally have next to no immediate interest in most
of them.