Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

[PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

Posted by Bagas Sanjaya 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg
since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch
maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
index 8e63d171767db8..7bd41838a5464f 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
@@ -99,8 +99,10 @@ go out with a handful of known regressions, though, hopefully, none of them
 are serious.
 
 Once a stable release is made, its ongoing maintenance is passed off to the
-"stable team," currently Greg Kroah-Hartman. The stable team will release
-occasional updates to the stable release using the 9.x.y numbering scheme.
+"stable team," currently consists of Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin. The
+stable team will release occasional updates to the stable release using the
+9.x.y numbering scheme.
+
 To be considered for an update release, a patch must (1) fix a significant
 bug, and (2) already be merged into the mainline for the next development
 kernel. Kernels will typically receive stable updates for a little more

base-commit: 0aa760051f4eb3d3bcd812125557bd09629a71e8
-- 
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

Posted by Jonathan Corbet 3 months, 1 week ago

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:

> Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg
> since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch
> maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> index 8e63d171767db8..7bd41838a5464f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> @@ -99,8 +99,10 @@ go out with a handful of known regressions, though, hopefully, none of them
>  are serious.
>  
>  Once a stable release is made, its ongoing maintenance is passed off to the
> -"stable team," currently Greg Kroah-Hartman. The stable team will release
> -occasional updates to the stable release using the 9.x.y numbering scheme.
> +"stable team," currently consists of Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin. The
> +stable team will release occasional updates to the stable release using the
> +9.x.y numbering scheme.
> +
>  To be considered for an update release, a patch must (1) fix a significant

Applied, thanks.

jon

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

Posted by Randy Dunlap 3 months, 2 weeks ago


On 10/21/25 8:43 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg
> since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch
> maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>


Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Now matches the MAINTAINERS file.

Thanks.

> ---
>  Documentation/process/2.Process.rst | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> index 8e63d171767db8..7bd41838a5464f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
> @@ -99,8 +99,10 @@ go out with a handful of known regressions, though, hopefully, none of them
>  are serious.
>  
>  Once a stable release is made, its ongoing maintenance is passed off to the
> -"stable team," currently Greg Kroah-Hartman. The stable team will release
> -occasional updates to the stable release using the 9.x.y numbering scheme.
> +"stable team," currently consists of Greg Kroah-Hartman and Sasha Levin. The
> +stable team will release occasional updates to the stable release using the
> +9.x.y numbering scheme.
> +
>  To be considered for an update release, a patch must (1) fix a significant
>  bug, and (2) already be merged into the mainline for the next development
>  kernel. Kernels will typically receive stable updates for a little more
> 
> base-commit: 0aa760051f4eb3d3bcd812125557bd09629a71e8

-- 
~Randy

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer

Posted by Greg Kroah-Hartman 3 months, 2 weeks ago

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 10:43:35AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> Sasha has also maintaining stable branch in conjunction with Greg
> since cb5d21946d2a2f ("MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch
> maintainer"). Mention him in 2.Process.rst.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>