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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Gideon D'souza" <gidisrael@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-mentors@selenic.com
Subject: Re: Newbie: When does the merge window come by?
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:50:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140222165017.GA25720@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPNrq4xFXjN5AR=J9pdoE+uzHwSiZ_aM1G90jS17-PmfojTDGA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 01:56:30PM +0530, Gideon D'souza wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I apologize for the ignorance but I haven't been able to tell when the
> Linus' merge window is open.

Unless you are a subsystem maintainer, the merge window shouldn't matter
for you.

> >From this page:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
> 
> Questions I have:
> > I notice that there is a 3.14-rc3 tag so I'm assuming that is the latest/current version?
> > After the last rc is there some announcement that the merge window is open?
> > During the merge window (of 1-2 weeks) stuff for various subsystems and linux-next are sent in correct?

Have you read Documentation/development-process/ ?  The files there
should explain this.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-22 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-22  8:26 Newbie: When does the merge window come by? Gideon D'souza
2014-02-22 16:50 ` Greg KH [this message]

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