On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> > >>> > I tend to hold things off after -rc4 because you scare me more than Greg >>> > does ;-) >>> >>> Have you guys *seen* Greg? The guy is a freakish giant. He *should* >>> scare you. He might squish you without ever even noticing. >> >> Greg might be a giant and he might squish people without ever even >> noticing, but that's just a grave, deadly physical threat no real kernel >> hacker ever feels threatened by. (Not much can hurt us deep in our dark >> basements after all, except maybe earthquakes, gamma ray eruptions and Mom >> trying to clean up around the computers.) >> >> So Greg, if you want it all to change, create some _real_ threat: be frank >> with contributors and sometimes swear a bit. That will cut your mailqueue >> in half, promise! > > I don't think it's that simple. The problem here isn't that Greg is > being too nice. The problem is that people are holding back fixes > from Linus' tree. Greg might be able to yell at maintainers more, but > if he does it's after the fact and it's sort of a too late situation. > Those fixes should probably get in the tree because they should > probably have been in the .0 release to begin with. I don't envy Greg > here. > > I know... let's push this off onto linux-next. It isn't like Stephen > has anything better to do anyway ;). > > More seriously though, those -stable fixes queued up for months show Er.. probably should have said weeks or "a while" or something, not months. > up there first. Perhaps if we watch the trees feeding into linux-next > for a bit for fixes tagged with -stable in the middle -rc windows, we > can prod maintainers more. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html