Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753942AbaFITJJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2014 15:09:09 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f54.google.com ([209.85.215.54]:62446 "EHLO mail-la0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753808AbaFITJH (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2014 15:09:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140602214019.GA2134@redhat.com> References: <20140602214019.GA2134@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:09:04 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: lgNyPiiHGIURrc6K0Ela0T788YI Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 3.15-rc8 ... and merge window for 3.16 From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 07:37:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So let's try to see how well that works - the last weeks of the > > release tends to be me just waiting around to make sure nothing bad is > > happening, so doing this kind of overlapping development *should* work > > fine. Maybe it works so well that we'll end up doing it in the future > > even if there *isn't* some kind of scheduling conflict that makes me > > want to start the merge window before I'm 100% comfortable doing the > > release for the previous version. > > one side-effect of this is that the git-commits-head list is now posting > the commits you're queueing in your next branch but no way afaict to > distinguish them from changes going into 3.15 > > Can whoever maintains that hook add an X-branch header or something to make > filtering them easier ? Not to mention what happened when "next" got merged into "master": we received another copy of all commits. I had a backlog of only 4000 commits before the weekend, but after the pentecost holidays, this increased to 12000, incl. 5000 duplicates or so. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/