On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 02:00:00PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> That being said, maybe one path forward is that the stable team
> *should* be asking the subsystem maintainers about.  "Hey, the
> following commits appear to be backported, but you didn't add a cc:
> stable.  We plan to backport them unless you complain."  This has the
> benefit of giving feedback to the subsystem maintainers that they they
> missed tagging some number of commits, which might remind them to do
> better, or make them decide that they want to do something more
> explicit, such as have their own stable backports initiative ala XFS.

That's pretty much exactly what AUTOSEL already does.