From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9634C2A1B8; Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1733964024; cv=none; b=lZAMzmOQbYBuJtiMQ/fB45dZzHrmsKRLWQqkqsIzggtKo/KzTt+JGG90Vr9ZmCRN4rRcA4e6rG0OYGjRs4iB2boq6UtifFhpFsVH7aRXLQxybaRuOcpERN2RN+Pe3ziP9ST8GNKxsAsfT81SdKwH6ERE2859YhqkIHmA5CNWezo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1733964024; c=relaxed/simple; bh=OT8YytyiNryVofDMYxKDQ6AoAepT7nxNssWACgEdDV4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=dgRTRoEPRjhlSgXsLRWW6n9OhaQ2oAk7iIgHfgfTeja8ThCnoWv7PQznmcrERyTADP2J9q6/C3Z7Zs8fk4nKeehvdDQOS2tEiwDkWLLgSjhBFR0ppOrByejortfEn5kHzATvPndWO+hVr4T94vrsotN7nXuKEqAsTPUcxsgp6ZE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=o2EfLc4W; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="o2EfLc4W" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CEB1FC4CED2; Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:40:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1733964024; bh=OT8YytyiNryVofDMYxKDQ6AoAepT7nxNssWACgEdDV4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:From; b=o2EfLc4WSIS5QatpULaArJijId1LIT5e7wKfOu3BcQ0ohz4JVYigOgkwcBulYW4K1 JMxtu63COYPfVhFjvzu07FNiaBE67YpPEvh5Ef5MM692iDK0wUaL4w7XXc7DvJYaPs OjlgqVH3XU4R6jdFH4SWxALNU+QnwHzU60Ec8Up0GScy0USBcKataVpTCYkGGGldHR vg3NuQR4OiHqM4CdxChAUeL+MAJOP+ZDpVITdjUdCHaS4D9NuFXE16DJkmoT13cxng 1Y1ianGL0gVToFfBWyj6dEyhMY8a1Xj49Ye+0aedqXjheVPQJxV8QdqxGX/7ebUTtB kSUEVS9QUWkAA== Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:40:22 -0800 From: Jakub Kicinski To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-driver-reviewers@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kalle Valo , Johannes Berg , pablo@netfilter.org, Steffen Klassert Subject: [ANN] net-next winter break shutdown plan Message-ID: <20241211164022.6a075d3a@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! tl;dr net-next will be closed Dec 21st - Jan 1st (incl.) We plan to close the net-next tree for winter / end of the year holidays. This will look much like the merge window shutdown, but entirely self-inflicted. The expectation is that there wouldn't be much code posted, anyway, and we want to give maintainers and reviewers the psychological comfort of knowing that they don't have to look at the list. This is a third time we're closing the tree for end of the year, so hopefully it's not much of a surprise :) We run a quick poll among maintainers and top reviewers for the previous release and it suggests that all of us will try to be completely disconnected from Dec 24th to Jan 1st (incl.). Almost everyone will also be AFK on the 23rd, so let's extend the shutdown to the preceding weekend. Depending on the urgency and volume of fixes we hope to also skip the PR to Linus on Dec 26th. As always during net-next closures RFC posting of net-next code are not be discouraged. But you should probably be overeating while pondering the passage of time instead.. :)