On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 05:38:55PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> This proposal is coming as a followup to the brief IRC discussion that 
> happened a few months back.

> The amount of e-mails that are coming (with maintainers directly CCed) as 
> a result of patches being merged to -stable is so overwhelming that I am 
> not sure that people are making any productive use of it whatsoever.

> I am personally pretty much ignoring most of it, as (a) I wouldn't have 
> time to do anything else otherwise (b) I don't have a sufficient 
> motivation / time to invest effort into stable in the fist place.

> I feel it'd be beneficial to discuss this, and (depending on the outcome) 
> perhaps make it opt-in (or opt-out) at least, with people/subsystems 
> having means how to be excluded from all that ... ?

One thing I'd really like to see there would be to avoid sending each
patch separately for every stable version, that just blows up the mail
volume hugely especially for those of us with subsystems that carry a
lot of quirks.  I'm sure the range of versions something is being pulled
back to could be expressed in a single mail instead, it's always some
range of versions being processed en masse rather than just a single
version.  The per version cover letter is more useful for replying with
test results but that doesn't need the whole series.