On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 09:45:24PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:18:35PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I believe that -stable would be more useful without AUTOSEL process. > > There has to be a way to ensure that security fixes that weren't properly tagged > make it to stable anyway. So, AUTOSEL is necessary, at least in some form. I > think that debating *whether it should exist* is a distraction from what's > actually important, which is that the current AUTOSEL process has some specific > problems, and these specific problems need to be fixed... I agree with you, that we need autosel and we also need autosel to be better. I actually see Pavel's mail as a datapoint (or "anecdote", if you will) in support of that; the autosel process currently works so badly that a long-time contributor thinks it's worse than nothing. Sasha, what do you need to help you make this better?
