Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Bug reporting feedback loop

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 03:34:11PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> - There's still a gap between when bugs hit Linus' tree and when
> stable releases come out. This is not a knock against stable or
> a request for stable to go faster :). I try
> and monitor stable@ for fixes but there still seems to be a
> large time gap for identifying fixes that have been fixes in
> master that are relevant to a recent stable release.

Ok, I'll bite, what exactly do you mean by "large time"?  During the
-rc1 merge window, it can take a few weeks for me to catch up with the
large onslaught of patches marked for stable, but almost all of those
were determined by the develoers to not be all-so-serious, as they were
delayed in getting to Linus for -rc1, and not before.

You can always email and ask for specific patches to be queued up now,
as I go through the list in a semi-random manner.

After the big -rc1 chunk of patches are merged, it's usually only a week
at most before the patches hit a stable release, people usually complain
it goes too fast, not that it's too slow these days.

thanks,

greg k-h