On 07/11/2013 05:50 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > At least at one point in the past... > And at at least one *other* point in the past, Linus stated that "holding back anything with a Cc: stable waiting for the merge window is wrong". This would imply that the post-rc5-or-so policy and the stable policy are effectively the same. Now, "policy" is a big word, and Linus and the maintainers generally have exercised discretion here and I would think that a lot of it really depends on the trust relationship between Linus and maintainer, or between maintainer and submaintainer. I generally try to flag to Linus when I push something that he may consider questionable, and I very rarely get > Maybe the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of holding back > changes and trying to avoid the risk of introducing regressions; > perhaps this would be a good topic to discuss at the Kernel Summit. I think it would, to the extent such a policy is needed and workable. I think there is a serious risk in getting to hung up on policy. -hpa -- 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