Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The amount of -stable emails

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:00:49 +0200,
Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2025, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > > The question is whether it's really worth all the e-mail traffic this 
> > > is generating, if people are just filtering those away.
> > > 
> > > For context searches if some particular information regarding stable 
> > > patch history is needed, we can still do lore/lei queries nicely and 
> > > easily. Is there any other usecase (that people are actually actively 
> > > using) for it?
> > 
> > In rare cases, patches are incorrectly applied.  That can't be
> > verified without the actual patch.
> > 
> > Usually it happens with a cherry-pick with fuzz, so we might be able
> > to catch suspected ones, but the inspection of the patch is still
> > needed.
> 
> Sure, but you have to do that pro-actively (in case you care in the first 
> place, of course). Doesn't then lore/lei provide you with the equal 
> functionality?

Yeah, that's possible.  It'll become a question of tooling, after
all.  The digest mail could list up the commits that couldn't be
applied without fuzz, then one can fetch and verify, too.


Takashi