Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] [0/4] Common scenario for four proposals regarding regressions

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 12:14:34PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 26.06.24 09:36, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 05:51:31PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >> On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:02:21 -0400
> >> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> After all, given that stable is now delaying backports in the merge
> >>> window, there should be at least a 2 week period where .0 is it
> >>> (although it's also the two week period where we're not paying
> >>> attention ...)
> >>
> >> I'm curious. Is there a stable branch that adds the stable patches in
> >> continuously? That is, during the merge window, to have a branch that
> >> adds the stable patches as they come in and then when the merge window
> >> closes, to post the rc series with all the patches that have landed in
> >> that branch?
> > 
> > Yes, it's in the stable-queue git tree.  And in the linux-stable-rc tree
> > for those that can not consume quilt trees.  Been there for years...
> 
> Out of curiosity, as I seem to be missing something here:
> 
> Steven afaics asked for "continuously […] during the merge window" and
> the answer apparently made a few people (including myself) happy. But I
> can't see anything like that. Were you just busy with other stuff this
> merge window and didn't get around to pick up the changes, or did I look
> at the wrong place?

Ah, no, I read this wrong.  THere is no such tree that happens "during
the merge window", sorry, we are off doing other merge-window work and
not queueing up fixes then.

> I occasionally kept an eye on the trees you mentioned during in the past
> few days and the branches/directories for 6.10.y in stable-queue and the
> linux-stable-rc afaics have afaics been non existent until a few days
> ago before you started to prepare 6.10.1 -- and since that one was
> released ~20 hours ago those branches/directories do not contain any
> additional changes.

You are correct, I missed the "during merge window" portion.

thanks,

greg k-h