Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758798AbYAXXlZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:41:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752723AbYAXXlR (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:41:17 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:54417 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751592AbYAXXlQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:41:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:41:08 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1800 Lines: 40 On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for > the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of) > LCA in Melbourne, so let's hope it's a good one. Since I already had two kernel developers asking about the merge window and whether people (including me) traveling will impact it, the plan right now is to keep the impact pretty minimal. So yes, it will probably extend the window from the regular two weeks, but *hopefully* not by more than a few days. I'm going to try to merge at least some stuff while I'm in Melbourne, and I'd expect that most of the stuff that happens during LCA is code that is already pending to be merged (that's how the merge window is _supposed_ to work, after all, but with the 2.6.24 release cycle being longer than usual I suspect it's actually true in practice too). And the second week of the merge window I'll be back again. If I have bad bandwidth or am just goofing off during LCA, or if I end up being too jetlagged to merge well after, that will obviously push out things. And the same thing obviously goes for any other maintainer in the same condition. I'd hope that the git users to be in fairly good condition (with hopefully much of the stuff pending for 2.6.25 ready to go), and would worry more about people like Andrew in particular. So let's see how this works out. In short: I'm hoping that there won't be a big impact, but hey, let's be flexible. Who knows what happens.. Linus -- 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/