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On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:36:34 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:

> >
> > > Perhaps being less accepting of patches during merge window is one aspect,
> > > as the merge window leading up to this cycle was almost the same review
> > > load as when the cycle started.
> >
> > I'm having trouble understanding what you said here?
> 
> Sorry, what I mean to say is that in mm we're pretty open to taking stuff in the
> merge window, esp. now we have mm-new.
> 
> And last merge window my review load felt similar to during a cycle, which
> was kind of crazy.
> 
> So I wonder if we should be less accommodating and simply say 'sorry it's
> the merge window, no submissions accepted'?

hm, I always have a lot of emails piled up by the time mm-stable gets
merged upstream.  That ~1 week between "we merged" and "-rc1" is a nice
time to go through that material and add it to mm-new.  I think it
smooths things out.  I mean, this is peak time for people to be
considering the new material?

(ot, that backlog is always >400 emails and a lot of that gets tossed
out anyway - either it's just too old so I request a refresh or there
was a new version, or review was unpromising, etc).