From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jake Edge Subject: Re: [PATCH v3.1415] Documentation: add documentation summary for rc-series and merge window Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:02:13 -0600 Message-ID: <20090623130213.36b8ba8e@chukar> References: <20090622222217.GH23972@bombadil.infradead.org> <20090623175533.GK5305@mosca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Luis Rodriguez , "torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org" , Pavel Machek , Greg KH , "corbet-T1hC0tSOHrs@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org" , "alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org" , "linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "tshibata-zZGIbrA41Td8UrSeD/g0lQ@public.gmane.org" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090623175533.GK5305@mosca> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:55:33 -0700 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > You're right, thanks, will add that. Since you bring this up, are > there a lot of trees not using the foo-next-2.6.git convention? Hmm, it seems like I have seen a wide variety of tree names and/or branch names included in the git pull requests ... also, the tree/branch names used in linux-next: http://linux.f-seidel.de/linux-next/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Linux-next.IncludedTrees seem to be all over the map ... > > Again, seemingly too rigid based on what really happens ... but > > maybe this is documenting the "ideal" > > Well I take it that the maintainers who know they can get away with > some excemptions here don't need to read this to figure that out. But > I suppose it may be worth mentioning excemptions do exist, for the > record. BTW, just curious, are there any examples of this? I think you have created a new word: excemptions :) I kinda like it, but I think you mean exceptions. I think there are multiple examples of new features being merged after -rc1, but nothing comes to mind immediately ... I think the plan is to only add features during the merge window, but it occasionally gets overridden ... > Yes, thanks. BTW are you up for taking a stab at this yourself? I'm > not sure when I'll be able to again. Jon may have some comments, when he has a chance to look ... let's see where it goes from there ... jake -- Jake Edge - LWN - jake-T1hC0tSOHrs@public.gmane.org - http://lwn.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html