Linus warns of a short merge window

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-linux-foundation.org> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, linux-arch-AT-vger.kernel.org Subject: Reminder: short merge window Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:06:54 -0700 Message-ID: <AANLkTimNp3EhK=AsVchUMyQ__Yi4m9h1gwd6SYSvtMDA@mail.gmail.com> Archive-link: Article, Thread

So this is just a reminder - I'm trying to make sure that everybody is aware of the fact that in my 2.6.36 announcement, I was talking about trying to do a short merge window. Why? So that I could release -rc1 by the time the kernel summit started, despite the release of 2.6.36 being delayed. And so far, in the five days since the 2.6.36 release, we've merged 5500+ commits. That has turned my "maybe we can do a shorter merge window" into a "we can definitely do a shorter merge window". Because we already have enough changes, and there's almost a week to go - so I think we're well on track for doing that. But I'll holler here once more, just to try to make sure that nobody gets any big surprise by such a shorter-than-usual merge window. So for anybody out there planning on pushing things to me for this release and haven't yet done so (and I know there are subsystems that haven't yet, because they're in linux-next), make sure it happens this week by Saturday (because Sunday I'm spending on a plane, and I was tentatively planning on doing the release using the free PDX WiFi). Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/