From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43812EB64DA for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231395AbjGRQCv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:02:51 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54494 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230388AbjGRQCu (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:02:50 -0400 Received: from wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de (wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de [80.237.130.52]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 377E51984; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:02:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [2a02:8108:8980:2478:8cde:aa2c:f324:937e]; authenticated by wp530.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) id 1qLn9o-0001vO-R4; Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:02:36 +0200 Message-ID: <2c4f2031-db2d-92c4-5476-dfd813f93d50@leemhuis.info> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:02:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH docs] docs: maintainer: document expectations of small time maintainers Content-Language: en-US, de-DE To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Linux regressions mailing list , Krzysztof Kozlowski , corbet@lwn.net, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Mark Brown References: <20230713223432.1501133-1-kuba@kernel.org> <6f1014cd-f8c5-f935-dcc7-4f5a6b85e473@kernel.org> <20230714101028.337fb39a@kernel.org> <20230718083753.2d1e003a@kernel.org> From: Thorsten Leemhuis In-Reply-To: <20230718083753.2d1e003a@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;linux@leemhuis.info;1689696160;13f5e5c0; X-HE-SMSGID: 1qLn9o-0001vO-R4 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org On 18.07.23 17:37, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 12:31:02 +0200 Linux regression tracking (Thorsten > Leemhuis) wrote: >> Maintainers must ensure severe problems in their code reported to them BTW: I wonder if "reported to them" should be removed. Or maybe it should be "they become aware of" instead, as they might be reported to of the the contributors to the subsystem the maintainer handles. Not sure. Currently I think removing might be better. Judge yourself. >> are resolved in a timely manner: security vulnerabilities, regressions, >> compilation errors, data loss, kernel crashes, and bugs of similar scope. > > SG, thanks for the suggestion! +1 > One edit - I'd like to remove "security vulnerabilities" from the list. > Security implications are an axis on which bug can be evaluated, one of > many. All kernel bugs have some security implications. Placing them as > a category like crashes, lockups or compiler errors could deepen the > confusion. I don't really care, but that could be avoided with something like "security vulnerabilities known to be exploitable". Cioa, Thorsten