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On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 08:54:54AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
>I don't disagree that those patches look like they should go in stable.
>My issue is that a stable release went out with those patches in them
>when they were buggy. We're very good at finding patches for stable
>which fix bugs. We're less good at finding buggy patches themselves
>in stable. Can we make more of a distinction between patches that
>are proposed for stable (all of those patches) and patches that
>have had enough testing to be included in stable (probably not those
>patches)? I'd like to answer the question of what more could be done
>(testing?) to identify those patches which are tagged as fixing
>bugs but are also still buggy.

I agree.

What are your thoughts about a stable-next branch of sorts where we can
push stable tagged fixes as soon as they hit either Linus's tree or
maybe the pending-fixes branch in linux-next?

This way we'll have a longer term stable tree to test, and Greg can just
cut releases from there.=