On Tue, 2018-04-17 at 17:52 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > How do I get the XFS folks to send their stuff to -stable? (we have > > quite a few customers who use XFS) > > If XFS (or *any* other subsystem) doesn't have enough manpower of upstream > maintainers to deal with stable, we just have to accept that and find an > answer to that. > > If XFS folks claim that they don't have enough mental capacity to > create/verify XFS backports, I totally don't see how any kind of AI would > have. > > If your business relies on XFS (and so does ours, BTW) or any other > subsystem that doesn't have enough manpower to care for stable, the proper > solution (and contribution) would be just bringing more people into the > XFS community. > > To put it simply -- I don't think the simple lack of actual human > brainpower can be reasonably resolved in other way than bringing more of > it in. Not to worry... soon enough it'll be submitting properly massaged backports of the stuff it submitted upstream :) -Mike