From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751438AbZH0TJg (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:09:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751135AbZH0TJd (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:09:33 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com ([209.85.223.204]:41826 "EHLO mail-iw0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848AbZH0TJc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:09:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=U6Y1tbGwDREsOGelGD/6HGROLB+YP5AO9cZukPJ9dc6nCVZGeBwMzVOAmSA4aZhd7s F0K4VKc0Es3nt7QSSWGe3XnBteBMhc91AgGSLcDg0jxRPFMU39CCbBCLTI0GzKsJOw4S NWuMv3ciD9HEiYNPJpK7LKc6kW1eUFVbXudn0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090827182952.GC10360@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <43e72e890908271122l6b08aaa5lc66de78301c7c88d@mail.gmail.com> <20090827182952.GC10360@sequoia.sous-sol.org> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:09:14 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890908271209mdbaaf03l820aade2266eb54c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Would it help to encourage users to read/test stable-review patches To: Chris Wright Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_St=C3=B6veken?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Chris Wright wrote: > * Luis R. Rodriguez (mcgrof@gmail.com) wrote: >> Also what if a user just wants to test an entire series queues up >> for stable-review, is there a single all-in-one file user can just >> patch -p1 to help test prior to getting the next stable release made? > > There is a queue that can be applied w/ quilt  (or any similar tool that > can handles patches + series file).  This is kept here: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git For us non-quilters and lazy people can we get an all-in-one patch generated from a script or something? If not I can just try to keep one up to date myself but figured since you have a tree it may be easier to refer the one place instead of two. >> Do we want more user exposure to stable-review mailing list or is just >> a few developer eyes enough? > > More review never hurts, but do you think there's a specific lack or > problem? Not really, I was thinking about the fellow Ubunteros users who tend to not have a clue but sometimes enough good will to want to help. If the average user understood better the upstream process then perhaps it would become clearer to them the importance of stable patches and stable-review. Bringing users closer to stable-review to me indicates more users would understand the stable process and therefore would stop bitching to me when a 'non-cirtical' fix never made it into their ancient stable. Cc'ing one of those. Luis