The rest of the 5.10 merge window

Posted Oct 26, 2020 22:00 UTC (Mon) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
In reply to: The rest of the 5.10 merge window by xjtuwjp
Parent article: The rest of the 5.10 merge window

My understanding is Greg very explicitly doesn’t stick to a schedule or advertise the LTS selection very far in advance (If it’s in advance at all?), because he doesn’t want features getting rushed in to make the LTS release, etc.

The rest of the 5.10 merge window

Posted Oct 28, 2020 14:39 UTC (Wed) by knurd (subscriber, #113424) [Link]

> My understanding is Greg very explicitly doesn’t stick to a schedule

Yes, there is no "schedule", but he follows a quite predictable scheme (that iirc even got mentioned here in a LWN.net article somewhere): he alwys picks the latest mainline release as new longterm kernel at the start of the year. And that scheme means that 5.15 will likely be the overnext longterm kernel. For details see these tweets:

https://twitter.com/kernellogger/status/1321446705594773508
https://twitter.com/gregkh/status/1321459550994784259