Newbie: When does the merge window come by?

Newbie: When does the merge window come by?

[Gideon D'souza]

Hi All,

I apologize for the ignorance but I haven't been able to tell when the
Linus' merge window is open.

>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?

Thanks Very Much,
Gideon

Re: Newbie: When does the merge window come by?

[Greg KH]

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