From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E22AA12E2 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 21:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com (aserp1040.oracle.com [141.146.126.69]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8AEF11AA for ; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 21:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <55E61200.8000706@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:00:48 -0400 From: Sasha Levin MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH , Jani Nikula References: <55A26C5B.8060007@oracle.com> <20150713105210.6e367f4b@noble> <55A33E48.2040202@oracle.com> <20150713142132.08fead4d@gandalf.local.home> <55A45AD8.5010400@oracle.com> <20150713210226.519dedfd@gandalf.local.home> <20150713202818.23310729@lwn.net> <1436871795.2445.8.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <874mje5y13.fsf@intel.com> <20150901205235.GA7344@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20150901205235.GA7344@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: James Bottomley , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Issues with stable process List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 09/01/2015 04:52 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> I'm wondering if people would think it worthwhile to have a >> > collaborative effort of annotating commits using git notes, both >> > automatically and manually. The manual annotations might be things like, >> > "Cc: stable", "whoops, this was a bad idea for stable", or "this also >> > needs commit foo in stable". Of course, with more structure, but you get >> > the idea. > git notes are a pain to propagate around, so while I like the idea of > this, I don't know how well the proposed solution would work. I agree, the way we work right now doesn't really help with collaboration between us when working on multiple stable trees. I do have a plan in mind to create a "standard" set of scripts (rather than each using his own), where sharing of this metadata could be scripted in the background and used transparently without having to deal with notes/note conflicts/etc. However, we all do things a bit differently, so that's one of the reasons I think the -stable workshow will be useful: we could figure out a common base and start working from there. In the future, it would be interesting to get distro kernel maintainers into this mix as well... Thanks, Sasha