On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:12:03 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoa...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Anyhow, this -rc cycle has been quite the firehose in MM and I'm > > feeling a need to slow things down for additional stabilization and so > > people hopefully get additional bandwidth to digest the material we've > > added this far. So I think I'll just cherrypick [1/7] for now. A > > great flood of positive review activity would probably make me revisit > > that ;) > > > > Kalesh - I do intend to look at this series when I have a chance. My review > workload has been insane so it's hard to keep up at the moment. > > Andrew - This cycle has been crazy, speaking from point of view of somebody > doing a lot of review, it's been very very exhausting from this side too, > and this kind of work can feel a little... thankless... sometimes :) I hear you. I'm shedding most everything now, to give us a couple of weeks to digest. > I feel like we maybe need a way to ask people to slow down, sometimes at > least. Yup, I'm sending submitters private emails explaining the situation. Maybe they should be public emails, I find it a hard call. > Perhaps being less accepting of patches during merge window is one aspect, > as the merge window leading up to this cycle was almost the same review > load as when the cycle started. I'm having trouble understanding what you said here? > Anyway, TL;DR: I think we need to be mindful of reviewer sanity as a factor > in all this too :) > > (I am spekaing at Kernel Recipes then going on a very-badly-needed 2.5 week > vacataion afterwards over the merge window so I hope to stave off burnout > that way. Be good if I could keep mails upon return to 3 digits, but I have > my doubts :P) I'd blow that in three days ;)
