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SubjectRe: get_maintainer, b4, and CC: stable
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On Wed, 2023-08-09 at 18:21 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 09:50:00AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>
> > I suspect that either b4 or get_maintainer could see the Fixes tag and
> > then suggest to Cc stable for me.
>
> > Should get_maintainer.pl make such recommendations?
>
> People use the Fixes tag all the time for bugs that never made it into a
> release...


As Nick suggests, likely not. Many fixes do
not belong in stable and are only commits
that update the current rc.

get_maintainer checks the "fixes:" tag and
cc's the signers of the commit being fixed.

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