Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: merge status | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:25:23 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 14:01 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 akpm akpm 339882 Nov 9 11:19 git-scsi-misc.patch > > > > This one is all 2.6.15 material. I think I now (as of one minute ago) > > have it updated to the last of the 2.6.15 (barring bug fix) patches. > > I'd like to regression test it for a day or two, so I plan to request > > the final merger on Friday. > > I'm hoping there aren't any infrastructure upheavals that break drivers > again, because if there are, I think we're going to have to make a > separate rule for things like that: they have to be merged early in the > sequence or not at all.
There are one or two. Part of the delay is getting sign offs from all the people involved.
> And in _general_ I find it very wrong to consciously leave the merge until > the last day of the merge window.
Well ... I can give you the URL to pull now if you want ... I'd just prefer to give this lot another day or so of testing.
> If that keeps happening, I think I'll just make sure that I don't always > merge on the last day or two. Just to make sure that submaintainers don't > "game" the system the wrong way. Maybe my "two weeks" are sometimes just > ten days long, who knows..
That's a nice theory, except that it's my contributors who drop me in it by leaving their patch sets until you declare a kernel, dumping the integration testing on me in whatever time window is left.
James
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