From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
Michael Hohnbaum <hohnbaum@us.ibm.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>,
Guillaume Boissiere <boissiere@adiglobal.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST]
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 04:31:03 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D38AF47.2000106@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L.0207192110161.12241-100000@imladris.surriel.com
Rik van Riel wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>
>
>>I, in my egocentrism, think it would make more sense to have a deadline
>>for submission rather than a deadline for acceptance,
>>
>>
>
>It's both. We all know Linus doesn't have the time to keep
>forward-porting our hundreds of patches so he can only include
>patches into his kernel that apply to the exact same tree he
>has at that day.
>
>This (and the fact that Linus gets far too much email and patches
>to look at old ones) is bound to make the Halloween deadline stick
>for both submission and acceptance.
>
>I hope.
>
>regards,
>
>Rik
>
>
That could be dealt with by letting people resend feature containing
patches that were first submitted by Halloween (forward porting them as
things progress) until they get a rejection or Linus announces he has
taken all that he wants from the queue.
A thundering herd of patches is an opportunity, not a problem, unless
they need to get applied by Halloween.;-)
--
Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-20 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <3D3875D4.3090102@us.ibm.com>
2002-07-19 20:40 ` [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST] Michael Hohnbaum
2002-07-19 21:28 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-19 23:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-19 23:37 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-20 0:11 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-20 0:31 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2002-07-20 0:46 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-20 0:53 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-20 1:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-20 1:55 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-20 3:10 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-07-20 5:03 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-21 18:01 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-30 14:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-07-30 14:46 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-30 15:52 ` Hans Reiser
2002-07-20 0:13 ` Andreas Dilger
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