On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 06:53:56PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:21:13AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > As a company, we are most likely shooting ourselves in the foot by not > > having a point of coordination with the Linux Foundation and key people > > like you, Greg and other participants in the stable kernel. > > What does the LF have to do with this? > > We are here, on the mailing lists, working with everyone. Just test the > -rc releases we make and let us know if they work or not for you, it's > not a lot of "coordination" needed at all. > > Otherwise, if no one is saying that they are going to need these for 6 > years and are willing to use it in their project (i.e. and test it), > there's no need for us to maintain it for that long, right?
Greg, please remember I expressed I really need them for slightly more than 3 years (say 3.5-4) :-) I'm fine with helping a bit more as time permits if this saves me from having to take over these kernels after you, like in the past, but I cannot engage on the regularity of my availability. Overall I think that a lot of people completely underestimate the amount of work it requires to maintain stable kernels, and how much it could be distributed. By having a bunch of users participate a little bit more (e.g. by sometimes backporting the patches that are essential to them, by testing what's relevant to their use case), it already offloads a lot of work. I don't think the extra work requires to be much organized if there are enough participants to share the efforts. Regards, Willy