Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Bug reporting feedback loop

[Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Greg KH wrote:

> Ok, I'll bite, what exactly do you mean by "large time"?  During the 
> -rc1 merge window, it can take a few weeks for me to catch up with the 
> large onslaught of patches marked for stable, but almost all of those 
> were determined by the develoers to not be all-so-serious, as they were 
> delayed in getting to Linus for -rc1, and not before.
> 
> You can always email and ask for specific patches to be queued up now,
> as I go through the list in a semi-random manner.
> 
> After the big -rc1 chunk of patches are merged, it's usually only a week
> at most before the patches hit a stable release, people usually complain
> it goes too fast, not that it's too slow these days.

I agree, we don't see the pace at which patches make it into -stable as a 
big issue for us (*); in case we need anything cherry-picked from Linus' 
tree earlier than it appears in -stable, we just do that, and drop it from 
our tree once we merge new -stable.

(*) sometimes it's actually quite the contrary :)

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs