Re: Proposal: Enhancing Commit Tagging for Stable Kernel Branches

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 04:40:01PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 04:34:19PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:

> > I'm very surprised that it didn't cross anyone's mind yet that
> > contributors and maintainers don't bother using Cc: stable because they
> > don't care about stable for various reasons. So the behaviour is nether
> > good nor bad and doesn't have to be penalized.

> Totally true.  The first rule of the stable tree is "it will not put
> additional burden on any developer or maintainer that doesn't want to
> participate in it."  So if you don't want to deal with it, wonderful,
> don't take anything and just don't worry about it.

FWIW as we've discussed before I stopped adding explicit CCs for the
most part since AUTOSEL is picking up far more than I ever would so it
doesn't seem worth the effort to filter which is a variation on what
Alexandre mentioned.

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