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authorBagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>2025-10-22 10:43:35 +0700
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2025-10-29 16:19:27 -0600
commitba2457109d5b47a90fe565b39524f7225fc23e60 (patch)
tree51a0a75b172ef87e996a7b59fb6094185b5f3c97
parent9de608a26f02b97396335bee01492f83b832dbc8 (diff)
Documentation: process: Also mention Sasha Levin as stable tree maintainer
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> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251022034336.22839-1-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
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@@ -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