From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761194AbYEANyp (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 09:54:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754938AbYEANyg (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 09:54:36 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:45995 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752619AbYEANyg (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 09:54:36 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4819CB85.2040809@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:54:13 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080419 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Linus Torvalds , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200804302136.58005.rjw@sisk.pl> <200804302245.50817.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200804302245.50817.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > And what do you think is happening _after_ the merge window closes, when > we're supposed to be fixing bugs? People work on new code. That's not correct. People work on new code before, during, and after the merge window. They also fix bugs before, during, and after it. > And, in fact, they have to, if they want to be ready for the next merge > window. To be ready for the next merge window just means to know which code is sufficiently reviewed and tested, and to have it queued up and if necessary synchronized with other pending code. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-= ----= http://arcgraph.de/sr/