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After the merge window closed...

Posted Mar 18, 2010 4:23 UTC (Thu) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913)
Parent article: After the merge window closed...

I know this is ridiculous, but I am reminded of the TSA policy of explicit unpredictability after the xmas day Detroit attack.

And it *does* feel arrogant, in the same way.

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Posted Mar 18, 2010 6:41 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

It's probably not really that big of a deal though.

Nobody really uses Linus's tree directly anymore. At least the number of folks that do it are
relatively small.

People use distro-supplied kernels nowadays and if a distro decides to use a Linus branch kernel
directly on it's first 'release' does not really deserve to have users due to their obvious stupidity.

After the merge window closed...

Posted Mar 18, 2010 7:32 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

if the maintainers don't have their trees ready prior to th emerge window, how much testing do those trees actually get prior to being merged?

Linus has made the same point about trees that get re-based immediately prior to to the pull request.

I suspect that by delaying such trees to the next merge window the tree will stabilize faster and end up shortening the time until the next full release.