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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow
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On 07/15/2016 02:27 AM, Zefan Li wrote:
> On 2016/7/10 21:33, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 07/10/2016 03:20 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>>> On Sun, 10 Jul 2016, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>
>>>> IMO, we need a really better QA before releasing stable trees.  They are
>>>> all fixes, yes, but they aren't always fixes for stable trees, in
>>>> reality.
>>>
>>> I agree.
>>>
>>> BTW, how much coverage does -stable get from Fengguang's 0day robot? I
>>> think that as most of the stable tress don't really use the git workflow,
>>> the trees are being pushed out to git.kernel.org only shortly before
>>> actual release, so the 0day bot doesn't have enough time to catch up; but
>>> I have to admit I don't really know how exactly the timing and flow of
>>> patches works here.
>>>
>>
>> Greg tends to update his trees on a quite regular basis, as he applies patches.
>> I don't really know for sure about the others, but overall my impression is
>> that there tends to be a flurry of patches applied in the day before a stable
>> release candidate is announced.
>>
>
> I also set up a testing branch for 3.4.y so that Fengguang's 0day can test it
> before I send out stable-rc1.
>

Is that at a well defined location ? I would prefer to pick up the changes from there
instead of the quilt queue (and I am sure Kevin would like to do the same).

Thanks,
Guenter