On 18.09.25 12:29, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 04:32:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:36:34 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoa...@oracle.com>
wrote:
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?
Sorry, what I mean to say is that in mm we're pretty open to taking stuff in the
merge window, esp. now we have mm-new.
And last merge window my review load felt similar to during a cycle, which
was kind of crazy.
So I wonder if we should be less accommodating and simply say 'sorry it's
the merge window, no submissions accepted'?
hm, I always have a lot of emails piled up by the time mm-stable gets
merged upstream. That ~1 week between "we merged" and "-rc1" is a nice
time to go through that material and add it to mm-new. I think it
smooths things out. I mean, this is peak time for people to be
considering the new material?
I'm confused, why is the merge window a good time to consider new material?
People have the entirety of the cycle to submit new material, and they do
so.
My view is that if you are sending a cleanup/feature during the merge
window you cannot expect a fast reply, and you should not keep sending
new versions in that timeframe expecting that all people you CCed that
should have a look actually did have a look.
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Cheers
David / dhildenb
