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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>,
	Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>,
	Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: merge status
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:16:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4372F3DE.2020909@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511091437100.4627@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The development SHOULD NOT happen during the merge window. The development 
> should have happened in the tree you wait to merge /while waiting/ for the 
> window to open.

In theory.  In reality, when the drain unclogs, peoples' output increases.

I'm NOT arguing either side, mind you.  Just making a note.


> If two weeks of merge window is too short, maybe the four weeks _between_ 
> the windows is long enough to sort things out.

Honestly, I wonder if two weeks is too long.  The shorter the window, 
the more people will work the way you describe above.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-10  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-09 21:35 merge status Andrew Morton
2005-11-09 21:50 ` James Bottomley
2005-11-09 22:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09 22:25     ` James Bottomley
2005-11-09 22:43       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-10  7:16         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-11-09 23:01       ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-09 23:09         ` Jesper Juhl
2005-11-09 23:58         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-10 13:28           ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-10  0:16         ` Con Kolivas
2005-11-10  0:25           ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10  0:24         ` James Bottomley
2005-11-10  8:40         ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-10  8:56           ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10  9:22             ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-10  9:30               ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10  9:57                 ` git branches strategy (was Re: merge status) Jeff Garzik
2005-11-10 13:22                 ` merge status Dave Kleikamp
2005-11-10 13:26         ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-14 20:13         ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-09 22:05 ` Roland Dreier
2005-11-09 22:12 ` Jody McIntyre
2005-11-09 22:18   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09 22:23     ` Jody McIntyre
2005-11-09 22:45       ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-09 22:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09 22:13 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-09 22:48   ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-09 22:58     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-09 22:41 ` Russell King
2005-11-10  7:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-10  8:41 ` Jens Axboe
     [not found] <OF4A6DAD74.A56B078E-ON872570B4.007A77CE-862570B4.007AC8BB@us.ibm.com>
2005-11-09 22:23 ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-09 22:54 Luck, Tony
2005-11-09 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10  7:38 Brown, Len
2005-11-10  7:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-10  8:19   ` Keith Owens
2005-11-10 17:17 Luck, Tony

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