On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 11:29 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Anyway, the point I'm making is that Q&A is limited and often even > actively misleading ("Hey, I have three tested-by's, so it must be > fine"), and we might actually want to have a new class of > "non-critical patch that might be worth backporting to stable, but > only do so after it's been in a release for some time". Because while > it might be an "obvious" fix, maybe it's not critical enough that it > needs to be backported _now_ - maybe it could wait a month or two, and > get wider testing. Should we add another stable tag? Have the default Cc: stable have to wait a rc or two in mainline before it makes its way to the stable tree. Have a stable-critical for those that are bugs that are security fixes than need to be backported ASAP. -- Steve -- 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