Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Stable trees and release time

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:27:29PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:16:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> >It's not just maintainers any more - in particular we've got Sasha's
> >neural net thing picking patches as well and it's substantially more
> >trigger happy than at least I am.  People do get a chance to review what
> >it's picking but that's different to maintainers picking things.

> What can I do to make the process better?

> I tried giving longer review periods, I tried sending emails right when
> the patch is merged upstream instead of weeks later and I tried actively
> pursuing some maintainers for explicit Acks. None of which seemed to
> make anyone happier.

Honestly the whole thing just gives me a bit of anxiety.  I'd say most
of the patches my thinking is "it's *probably* fine" and it's rare for
me to think "Oh, I missed that important patch!".  As you know I do
sometimes actively push back on things.  On balance it mostly doesn't
break things though and I'm not sure what can be improved process wise
here, a lot of it is fundamentally that if I thought it was clearly good
for stable I'd have flagged it already.

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