From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A0AC78F2F for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2025 21:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1754427870; cv=none; b=c8DroAfZ4aQl+/XOi+OYVU5fp/IiTLFR8RBCmUBPRobgp5HtfaxsjMO0eyicKlOUoFwA6560PsKtfbRMpLbh8hYWF/2tejdxLwaOuM97sXJPOpnK2v4JET9EzEws1QHzIXNoiorXjliDrrgW+uziYf2oZEfpurpbqKFhQVTRf+o= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1754427870; c=relaxed/simple; bh=bgQVS8Fcg2jCUfhUQctGoNr4AHjvpAWNO0oZoVqmU3Q=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=WWO1Na+2Mv3D/Xgs25xprfhe1TJj8QyqRJU1WnKn2K3QmD1NqFBD5S1JsCZ8iOTOsJn83l5l2xBIalgi39QnVIwRpvtFABmwdCschqoqwICNgBqsMy2oQ0zLDwVlOnO2aoaAqiMpNCScDtPY7vozz7uwJlPpPkKqSSXW/aLKrKQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=DcAmh+tg; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="DcAmh+tg" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 76500C4CEF0; Tue, 5 Aug 2025 21:04:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1754427869; bh=bgQVS8Fcg2jCUfhUQctGoNr4AHjvpAWNO0oZoVqmU3Q=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=DcAmh+tg+MdehTJRpD5f1cvRuEet/GjIwpgF0/CcSTZWYPVBhHk7I/o6G8lB7r65o dkkkoEJju8A/lARH/mVggq0jbmfsEo4gvk2zCXMz46TRPhln/WG86ZaO/GHmNzxt8E TEsaz9JPgpl3bZ1MmB3S9AehP5mTGjTC1ckAP9JD3zuH/QBDYeS4uxCvYxCEsnmSq6 GnQIy5DDT3Uu7A2GkK1JXNTLUYdj7wAAEnJInZWg1KLdIdbYz+hWRWdF6Rfj5B0Dot vo8LJ6WmCNeB2k7g2gg9ZHnUbg8qRvnHZ5xTvPzBmeE43ZrnaDW2jzxysklO1EDkqe ZBJFczH0VYbzQ== Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 17:04:27 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: Konstantin Ryabitsev Cc: Steven Rostedt , Mark Brown , Jiri Kosina , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The amount of -stable emails Message-ID: References: <162r47q9-rp56-67so-7032-2r1rn36p03n6@fhfr.pbz> <9dbe8a42-e43a-4beb-acfa-3ed1c069fa47@sirena.org.uk> <20250805122828.68312a8d@gandalf.local.home> <20250805-mottled-granite-otter-3dadde@lemur> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250805-mottled-granite-otter-3dadde@lemur> On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 01:59:10PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: >On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 01:14:24PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: >> > Now, if something is marked for stable, I really don't want to be bothered >> > that it made it to a stable tree. If I marked something for stable, sending >> > me an email that it was applied is rather redundant. >> >> So I'd love to cancel the "Added to the stable tree" mails. I honestly >> don't even know why they go out: my understanding that it was for >> historical reasons where someone asked for those in the past, but I >> really feel bad about sending those out because to me they are pure >> spam. > >I can suggest that you write them to a public-inbox feed instead. We can then >pull that into lore so they still show up for people performing context >queries, but we don't ever deliver them via SMTP. I wish I knew who actually uses it, so maybe we could just drop it altogether :/ This predates the lei/lore days, so I'm a git concerned about making a change like that if anyone is actually relying on those mails. -- Thanks, Sasha