Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH 0/3] ARM: three easy patches for coverity-reported issues

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 21/02/2014 08:24, Michael Roth ha scritto:
> > >
> > > You haven't defined breakage; what breakage deserves a change in a
> > > stable release.  Some interpret it as regression, some as "any bug",
> > > some as "any crash bug", and so on.
> Personally I think it's fair to punt that determination to the stable
> maintainers: if it's a bug that existed in a previous release, however minor,
> and you or someone else cares enough to cc: qemu-stable about, it's a
> reasonable *candidate* for consideration.

I agree.  Note that you added a very important condition: you or someone 
else *cares enough*.

The question under discussion is: can we define a kind of breakage that 
*any* maintainer should care enough about, and add a Cc: tag when 
committing the fix?  How wide would/should that definition be?

Anyone else that "cares enough" can propose additional patches, even if 
the maintainer didn't tag it for stable in the commit.  The maintainer 
should give their opinion when that happens, but that's not a part of 
the process that's under question.

Paolo