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After the merge window closed...After the merge window closed...Posted Mar 18, 2010 6:41 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: After the merge window closed... by thedevil Parent article: After the merge window closed...
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
People use distro-supplied kernels nowadays and if a distro decides to use a Linus branch kernel
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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.
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