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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 03:37:00 +0400
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST]
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Andreas Dilger wrote:

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>Hans,
>my understanding is that core changes that aren't in by Halloween are
>not going to be accepted until 2.7.  By pre-announcing the deadline,
>it is hoped that people will have lots of time to submit things that are
>ready for inclusion, as opposed to rushing to submit when the "freeze"
>is announced all of a sudden.
>
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I, in my egocentrism, think it would make more sense to have a deadline 
for submission rather than a deadline for acceptance, as that would make 
things predictable for patch submitters, and avoid unintentional 
overlooking of good patches from obscure persons due to the crush of 
patches in October.

Pre-announcing the deadline is good, but having it be a deadline on 
something the patch submitters control (submission time not acceptance 
time) would be even better.

-- 
Hans



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