On Wed, 2023-08-09 at 18:21 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 09:50:00AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > > I suspect that either b4 or get_maintainer could see the Fixes tag and > > then suggest to Cc stable for me. > > > Should get_maintainer.pl make such recommendations? > > People use the Fixes tag all the time for bugs that never made it into a > release... As Nick suggests, likely not. Many fixes do not belong in stable and are only commits that update the current rc. get_maintainer checks the "fixes:" tag and cc's the signers of the commit being fixed.