Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Time to call it quits for the maintainer summit?

On Tue, Aug 18, 2026 at 12:38:08PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2026, Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> > That'd be helpful, thanks -  I guess you're going to annoy someone
> > either way unfortunately but at least the commit not in mainline issue
> > would be transient.

> We use the drm subsystem maintainer tool for cherry-picks, and it uses
> the -x option.

Ah, so they are - I did do a spot check but it looks like I managed to
find some of the few directly applied fixes.  I think I usually miss
the cherry-pick -x annotations because they end up buried in the block
of signoff information.  Sorry about that.

> If you have any suggestions for helpful but non-intrusive additional
> annotations on cherry-picked commits, it should be easy enough to update
> the tool. And perhaps the annotation could be more widely adopted as
> well. It's not like nobody else ever cherry-picks, we just do it
> more. The annotation could still be the same.

The stable ones where the annotation goes at the top of the changelog
are a bit more noticable?

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