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Can you come up with convincing *stats* on why backporting a huge pile of patches (say 800+, like in the case of #Linux 6.10.3) to stable #kernel series just days after being mainlined *during the merge window* and thus included in a mainline -rc1 is *worse* than quickly backporting changes mainlined *during the rest of the development cycle*?
Then tell me about it, because then I'll bring this up on the maintainers summit while talking about #regressions.
1/ FWIW, this is what I tried: I…
@kernellogger Please do. This is reason why -stable is more experimental than -rc1. (At least in -rc1 changes are tested in right context. In -stable cherry-picked changes are applied with minimal review).
sorry, but those are nice words and up to some point I agree, but those most likely won't convince Linus, Greg et. al.; I need some *stats* or something else that is able to do so.