Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] The amount of -stable emails

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 10:57:43AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 01:24:47PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 08:20:02AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 11:42:03AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>>
>> > > TBH I think a summary would help there - currently you're looking at six
>> > > threads for all the different stables and have to check every patch in
>> > > each, if we were instead getting a summary that says that patch A has
>> > > been backported to stables X-Y then it'd highlight more clearly if
>> > > something wasn't pulled far enough back.
>>
>> > Something along the lines of
>> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250805130945.471732-1-sashal@kernel.org/ ?
>>
>> Yes.  Possibly also putting the range in the body in case people find
>> that more visible when reading the thread?
>
>This is a bit of a tangent, but something that I think would be
>*really* cool is if there was a web dashboard which displayed commits
>that were either (a) tagged with a Fixes: or cc: stable, (b)
>explicitly requested by a maintainer / developer, (c) backported
>because it was a dependency needed for (a) or (b), and showed links to
>commits to the LTS links where it was a backported, and optionally a
>link to the "couldn't backport automatically" e-mail if it couldn't be
>backported.  It would also be useful if dashboard reported whether
>there was a CVE associated with the commit.
>
>The dashboard should be searchable by subsystem, and/or by date or
>kernel version range.  And it would be nice if maintainers could
>subscribe to periodic update e-mails on a per-subsystem basis.
>
>If we think this would be useful, perhaps we could try to see if we
>could get LF funding/support to create such a developer tool?

I had a similar idea about two months ago, and came up with
https://sashalevin.github.io/ . This is very much work in progress and I
wouldn't rely on the data currently in the dashboard.

Due to travel in the last couple of weeks progress was blocked, but I'm
hoping to have this in a good state for LPC to showcase it and get some
feedback in person. I wrote down your ideas around subsystem filtering,
CVE integration, and date filtering. Thanks! :)

This is one of the things AI has enabled me to do. I really don't think
that we need to go to the LF to get funding for this, at least not for
the 90% of the benefit that the dashboard will provide.

Sasha Levin, web developer, at your service :)

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Thanks,
Sasha