From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: [PATCH] NLM: Revert parts of commit 24e36663 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:54:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87089E47-10AE-4D41-B5BE-CCEE034C526B@oracle.com> References: <20080924184732.4078.83334.stgit@tarkus.1015granger.net> <20080925213831.GF14349@fieldses.org> <20080926184554.GA1492@fieldses.org> <1222454975.10150.8.camel@localhost> <1222456290.10150.10.camel@localhost> <20080926194421.GD1492@fieldses.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Cc: Trond Myklebust , Linux NFS Mailing List To: "J. Bruce Fields" Return-path: Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:39744 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751604AbYIZTzN (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:55:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080926194421.GD1492@fieldses.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sep 26, 2008, at Sep 26, 2008, 3:44 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:11:30PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 15:04 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: >>> >>> So in light of Linus' stated position, it would be helpful for me >>> (and >>> maybe others on the list) to have a good feel for when you guys are >>> planning to push your merge-window changes to Linus before each >>> window >>> opens. >>> >>> At the very least, since many of us do not follow LKML, would >>> someone >>> commit to reflecting the LKML merge announcements to linux-nfs? >>> Or is >>> there a kernel announcements list we can follow (or that we can >>> subscribe linux-nfs to)? >> >> There are no announcements. The merge window starts as soon as >> 2.6.27 is >> released, and lasts for 2 weeks. There has been some talk about >> shortening it to 1 week, but that hasn't been fully decided yet. >> >> IOW: Assume as soon as you see the 2.6.27 announcement, that we're >> preparing the merge. > > Yeah. Unfortunately I don't know of a simple way to get just the > release announcements. I guess lwn.net's rss feed would get them > with a > little less noise than lkml. > > We should probably restart sending those "what's in my tree for 2.6.x" > messages with the tentative shortlog for the pull. I think I did it a > couple times and then got lazy.... The whole system makes it absolutely impossible to plan features and bug fixes. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com