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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

2/ @kees replied to the "linus-next" proposal from Sasha and raised a few points I fully agree with, as that proposal felt a bit off for me.

lore.kernel.org/all/792F4759-E

"'Are people putting things in linux-next that they don't expect to send to Linus? That seems like the greater problem.

[…]

Why not just use linux-next? […]

[…] have a bot that replies to all PRs with a health check, and Linus can pull it if he thinks it looks good. […]"

lore.kernel.orgRe: linus-next: improving functional testing for to-be-merged pull requests - Kees Cook