From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com>,
"ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 20:16:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWi0ij=umCqckG3gQP8+ySTT16v_fdpQ7d5XNNLDgj21g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160804121414.2466c31f@gandalf.local.home>
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 16:44:44 +0100
> Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>> If it's a choice between me taking a bugfix for mainline and me getting
>> someone to give me a commit ID for exactly which commit introduced some
>> change I'm probably not going to do the latter, especially when a lot of
>> these things are more of the "we now understand the hardware better"
>> variety.
>
> Who said anything about a choice between one or the other?
>
>> > I don't buy this as burden on a maintainer. This should be part of the
>> > maintenance procedure, regardless of sending to stable or not. Yes it
>> > does take extra time, but I don't think that time is wasted.
>>
>> I'm really happy we've got people engaging upstream. I'm happy if
>> people fill in the extra information but really I'm way more interested
>> in a clear changelog than in getting a Fixes tag, or in checking that
>> the tags people are adding are accurate.
>
> Having a clear change log is orthogonal to having a Fixes tag. Actually,
> in my experience, change logs with Fixes tags tend to have clearer
> explanations in the change log than those without. Because to get that
> Fixes tag, one did some research to why the bug happened in the first
> place.
Would publishing statistics help, like the top 10 of Ackers and Reviewers?
E.g. Hall of Fame of bug fixers, based on the presence of Fixes tags, and
Hall of Shame, based on patches CCed to stable lacking Fixes tags?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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2016-07-08 23:12 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-08 23:38 ` Luck, Tony
2016-07-09 8:34 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-09 8:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-09 9:29 ` Johannes Berg
2016-07-09 15:19 ` Jason Cooper
2016-07-09 16:04 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-09 19:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-08-01 9:32 ` Johannes Berg
2016-08-01 11:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-09 18:39 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-07-10 1:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-08 23:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-09 0:06 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-09 8:37 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-09 9:12 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-09 0:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-09 0:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-09 0:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-09 1:53 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-09 10:05 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-09 15:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2016-07-09 22:41 ` Dan Williams
2016-07-10 1:34 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-10 1:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2016-07-10 1:56 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-10 2:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2016-07-10 2:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-10 3:00 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-10 3:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2016-07-26 13:35 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-26 13:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-26 14:33 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-26 15:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-28 21:02 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-29 0:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-29 8:59 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-29 14:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-01 13:53 ` Shuah Khan
2016-08-03 4:47 ` Bird, Timothy
2016-07-29 15:12 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-29 15:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-29 15:50 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-29 16:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-29 16:48 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-29 17:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-29 21:07 ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-07-29 21:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-01 13:41 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-30 16:19 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-01 13:35 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-08-01 14:24 ` Mark Brown
2016-08-02 14:12 ` Jani Nikula
2016-08-02 15:34 ` Mark Brown
2016-08-02 23:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-08-03 9:36 ` Jani Nikula
2016-08-03 11:09 ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 13:05 ` Jani Nikula
2016-08-03 13:26 ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 13:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-03 13:57 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-03 13:59 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-03 14:04 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-03 14:10 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-04 1:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 8:20 ` Greg KH
2016-08-04 13:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 15:32 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-08-04 15:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 15:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-04 16:18 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-08-04 16:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 15:44 ` Mark Brown
2016-08-04 15:56 ` James Bottomley
2016-08-04 17:01 ` Mark Brown
2016-08-04 17:11 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 17:53 ` Mark Brown
2016-08-05 8:16 ` Jani Nikula
2016-08-04 16:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 17:51 ` Mark Brown
2016-08-04 18:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2016-08-04 18:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 18:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-08-04 19:06 ` Mark Brown
2016-08-04 18:52 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-08-04 19:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-03 14:45 ` Mark Brown
2016-08-04 13:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-08-03 14:19 ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 14:45 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-03 15:48 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-08-03 16:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-08-03 16:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-08-03 17:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-08-03 18:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-08-03 18:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-08-03 21:25 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-03 21:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-08-03 21:36 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-04 3:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-03 22:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-08-04 14:02 ` Jan Kara
2016-08-03 18:57 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-03 22:16 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-08-04 3:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 3:32 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-08-04 4:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-08-04 8:27 ` Greg KH
2016-08-04 8:21 ` Greg KH
2016-08-05 4:46 ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-08-03 14:12 ` Jani Nikula
2016-08-03 14:33 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-03 13:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-08-03 13:21 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-08-04 1:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-08-03 13:39 ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 14:10 ` Chris Mason
2016-08-04 0:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-08-03 15:47 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-08-04 8:25 ` Greg KH
2016-08-03 11:12 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-10 2:27 ` Dan Williams
2016-07-10 6:10 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-11 4:03 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] kernel unit testing Trond Myklebust
2016-07-11 4:22 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-11 4:30 ` Trond Myklebust
2016-07-11 5:23 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-11 8:56 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-11 16:20 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-11 19:58 ` Dan Williams
2016-07-12 9:35 ` Jan Kara
2016-07-13 4:56 ` Dan Williams
2016-07-13 9:04 ` Jan Kara
2016-07-11 20:24 ` Kevin Hilman
2016-07-11 23:03 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-18 7:44 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-07-18 8:44 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-07-28 21:09 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-28 21:33 ` Bird, Timothy
2016-08-02 18:42 ` Kevin Hilman
2016-08-02 19:44 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-08-02 20:33 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-13 4:48 ` Alex Shi
2016-07-13 9:07 ` Greg KH
2016-07-13 12:37 ` Alex Shi
2016-07-13 19:59 ` Olof Johansson
2016-07-13 22:23 ` Alex Shi
2016-07-14 1:19 ` Greg KH
2016-07-14 9:48 ` Alex Shi
2016-07-14 9:54 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-07-14 14:13 ` Alex Shi
2016-07-13 14:34 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-14 3:17 ` Greg KH
2016-07-14 10:06 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-15 0:22 ` Greg KH
2016-07-15 0:51 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-15 1:41 ` Greg KH
2016-07-15 2:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-15 4:29 ` Greg KH
2016-07-15 5:52 ` NeilBrown
2016-07-15 6:14 ` Greg KH
2016-07-15 7:02 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-15 11:42 ` Greg KH
2016-07-15 11:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-15 12:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-07-15 6:19 ` Rik van Riel
2016-07-15 12:17 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-26 13:45 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-15 6:32 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-15 7:01 ` NeilBrown
2016-07-15 7:28 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-15 7:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-15 9:29 ` NeilBrown
2016-07-15 16:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-15 11:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-07-15 12:35 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-15 12:44 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-07-15 11:24 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-28 22:07 ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-07-21 7:13 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-07-21 7:44 ` Josh Triplett
2016-07-15 11:10 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-15 11:40 ` Greg KH
2016-07-15 12:38 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-10 2:07 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] stable workflow Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-10 6:19 ` Olof Johansson
2016-07-10 14:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11 1:18 ` Olof Johansson
2016-07-10 7:29 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-07-10 10:20 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-10 13:33 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-15 9:27 ` Zefan Li
2016-07-15 13:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-26 13:08 ` David Woodhouse
2016-07-10 7:37 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-07-09 0:06 ` Jason Cooper
2016-07-09 0:42 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-09 8:43 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-09 9:36 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-09 15:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-09 19:40 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2016-07-11 8:14 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-09 21:21 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11 15:13 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-11 17:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11 17:07 ` Justin Forbes
2016-07-11 17:11 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-11 17:13 ` Olof Johansson
2016-07-11 17:17 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-11 17:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-11 17:44 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-13 1:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-07-11 17:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-11 17:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11 17:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-07-11 17:27 ` Olof Johansson
2016-07-11 23:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-11 17:17 ` Josh Boyer
2016-07-11 22:42 ` James Bottomley
2016-07-20 17:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-07-11 8:18 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-11 23:32 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-11 14:22 ` Mark Brown
2016-07-10 16:22 ` Vinod Koul
2016-07-10 17:01 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-10 18:28 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-10 22:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-07-11 8:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-07-27 3:19 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-10 22:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11 1:12 ` Olof Johansson
2016-07-11 5:00 ` Vinod Koul
2016-07-11 5:13 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11 10:57 ` Luis de Bethencourt
2016-07-11 14:18 ` Vinod Koul
2016-07-11 17:34 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-07-27 3:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-27 4:36 ` Vinod Koul
2016-07-09 14:57 ` Jason Cooper
2016-07-09 22:51 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-07-10 7:21 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-07-11 7:44 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-08-02 13:49 ` Jani Nikula
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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2014-05-02 19:43 ` Josh Boyer
2014-05-02 20:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-02 20:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-02 20:22 ` Josh Boyer
2014-05-02 20:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-02 20:30 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-03 15:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-03 15:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-02 22:16 ` Jan Kara
2014-05-02 20:33 ` Ben Hutchings
2014-05-02 20:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-05-02 20:57 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-02 23:35 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-05-03 15:22 ` Greg KH
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