Scalability
Scalability
Posted May 26, 2016 18:29 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: 4.7 Merge window, part 2 by johannbg
Parent article: 4.7 Merge window, part 2
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.