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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] More productive uses of enthusiastic new
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On 05/30/2014 06:44 PM, Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2014/5/31 0:56, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> Thinking about this some more, what if instead of, or in addition to,
>> having newcomers work on cleanup patches, what if we encouraged some
>> of them to help to manually backport patches to the stable kernels
>> that don't apply automatically?
>>
>
> This is similar to my idea in "stable issues" to find a co-maintainer
> for Greg to do this work. While I sugguest to find a experienced and
> trustful person, you sugguest newcomers.
>
> I share the same concern with David, and I doubt newcompers are
> enthusiastic in doing backport for stable trees.
>

I don't think this is a matter of being enthusiastic or not. Much more
one of expertise. As a user of stable kernels, I would very much prefer
to have it maintained by an expert (or by experts), not by a newcomer.
Of course, that may be just me.

Guenter