From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:27:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:27:47 -0400 Received: from h24-67-14-151.cg.shawcable.net ([24.67.14.151]:54269 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:27:46 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:28:55 -0600 To: Hans Reiser Cc: Michael Hohnbaum , "Martin J. Bligh" , Guillaume Boissiere , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST] Message-ID: <20020719232855.GH10315@clusterfs.com> Mail-Followup-To: Hans Reiser , Michael Hohnbaum , "Martin J. Bligh" , Guillaume Boissiere , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3D3875D4.3090102@us.ibm.com> <1027111243.1269.94.camel@dyn9-47-17-90.beaverton.ibm.com> <3D388479.1060908@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D388479.1060908@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Jul 20, 2002 01:28 +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > Is Halloween the deadline for submission of patches, or the deadline for > inclusion? If I send in reiser4 on Halloween day according to some > timezone;-), have I made the deadline for inclusion into 2.6 even if it > takes Linus a few months to reach my place in the queue of patches sent > to him on Halloween day? > > I understand that earlier is better, and I will send it earlier if I > can, but even if we do get the reiser4 core (that which does all that V3 > does but faster and on top of a plugin infrastructure) done before > Halloween, we will inevitably add a few features and tweaks after doing > the core, and we will want to send those in at the last minute. Hans, my understanding is that core changes that aren't in by Halloween are not going to be accepted until 2.7. By pre-announcing the deadline, it is hoped that people will have lots of time to submit things that are ready for inclusion, as opposed to rushing to submit when the "freeze" is announced all of a sudden. If (as we all hope) the important features are added incrementally to the development kernel over the next few months, maybe all of the usage and testing that is going into the development kernel will not be totally lost when the entire kernel is morphed under a huge weight of patches. It may even mean that there will not be an extra year of features (and bugs) being added to the "frozen" kernel, and we will be able to start 2.7 earlier. As always, I imagine that as long as you have any core changes in 2.5 before the freeze, it will not be impossible to add self-contained things like filesystems and drivers after the freeze also. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/