From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 01:56:51 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Third slide: rest of the stable update process
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Third slide: rest of the stable update process
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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>The stable update process (2)</h1>
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+      Stable branch maintainer sends pending changes to the mailing
+      list, the original authors, etc., for a time-limited period of
+      review and testing
+      <ul>
+	<li>
+	  Although the changes have been accepted by Linus, some might
+	  not be needed in a stable branch or might not work due to
+	  missing dependencies
+	</li>
+	<li>
+	  A fix might have been found to introduce a regression in
+	  mainline, so should only be applied to the stable branch
+	  along with a second fix for the regression
+	</li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      All changes that passed review (and maybe some that were
+      added) are applied to the stable branch and the release is
+      tagged
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Greg pushes the tag to kernel.org (possibly after pulling
+      from the other maintainer) which generates tarballs,
+      updates the front page, etc.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Maintainer announces the release, shortly followed by LWN
+      and other news media
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Credits</h1>
   <ul>