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Better process for handling stable backporting #46

Open chucklever opened 8 months ago

chucklever commented 8 months ago

Subsystems don't get any specific testing by the generic stable kernel backporting process. Therefore the NFSD maintainers have to control what backports are requested so we can determine what has been tested.

We now have kdevops that can grab a kernel and run various tests against it. This can grab a candidate stable kernel as easily as it can grab linux-next.

But there are six stable kernels, in addition to the upstream master branch. It would be nice to have a designated submaintainer for each stable brach who can manage selecting upstream fixes, applying them to a target stable kernel, and running some tests before requesting that the fixes are merged into that branch.

chucklever commented 2 months ago

This is still urgent, but needs specific action items. Moving back to "unscoped".