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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 04:31:03 +0400
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST]
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Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I, in my egocentrism, think it would make more sense to have a deadline
>>for submission rather than a deadline for acceptance,
>>    
>>
>
>It's both.  We all know Linus doesn't have the time to keep
>forward-porting our hundreds of patches so he can only include
>patches into his kernel that apply to the exact same tree he
>has at that day.
>
>This (and the fact that Linus gets far too much email and patches
>to look at old ones) is bound to make the Halloween deadline stick
>for both submission and acceptance.
>
>I hope.
>
>regards,
>
>Rik
>  
>
That could be dealt with by letting people resend feature containing 
patches that were first submitted by Halloween (forward porting them as 
things progress) until they get a rejection or Linus announces he has 
taken all that he wants from the queue.  

A thundering herd of patches is an opportunity, not a problem, unless 
they need to get applied by Halloween.;-)

-- 
Hans



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