4.7 Merge window, part 2 [LWN.net]

4.7 Merge window, part 2

Posted May 26, 2016 17:13 UTC (Thu) by johannbg (guest, #65743)
Parent article: 4.7 Merge window, part 2

Is the writer sure about the community slowing down and the fundamental cause of the slowdown is not Linus not being able to keep up with pull requests?

Are there any stats on how many pull requests Linus receives vs what he merges?

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Scalability

Posted May 26, 2016 18:29 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Yes, "the writer" is quite sure; there have been no signs of pull requests falling through the cracks. I was worried a bit about the scalability of the process some years ago, and wrote an article to that effect, but I have no such worries at the moment.

Remember, 4.6 just barely missed being the busiest cycle ever, and probably only missed it because we seem to need fewer post-merge-window fixes than we used to. This cycle will "only" be 11-12,000 changesets, but that's a far cry from saying that the community is slowing down.