Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750862AbVKJN1l (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:27:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750863AbVKJN1l (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:27:41 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:50909 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750856AbVKJN1k (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:27:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:26:36 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrew Morton Cc: James Bottomley , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, tony.luck@intel.com, bcollins@debian.org, scjody@modernduck.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, rolandd@cisco.com, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, axboe@suse.de, shaggy@austin.ibm.com, sfrench@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: merge status Message-ID: <20051110132636.GB9584@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20051109133558.513facef.akpm@osdl.org> <1131573041.8541.4.camel@mulgrave> <1131575124.8541.9.camel@mulgrave> <20051109150141.0bcbf9e3.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051109150141.0bcbf9e3.akpm@osdl.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1118 Lines: 32 Hi! > > it's my contributors who drop me in it > > by leaving their patch sets until you declare a kernel, dumping the > > integration testing on me in whatever time window is left. > > Yes, I think I'm noticing an uptick in patches as soon as a kernel is > released. > > It's a bit irritating, and is unexpected (here, at least). I guess people > like to hold onto their work for as long as possible so when they release > it, it's in the best possible shape. > > I guess all we can do is to encourage people to merge up when it's working, > not when it's time to merge it into mainline. Well, merge when previous stuff is way easier, because you can just do cg-diff. When my previous changes enter mainline, it is suddenly very easy to generate next patch. [And it makes sense, it is cg-diff -r origin: "let's see what I missed]. Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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/