Things looked fairly calm for a while, but that certainly changed yesterday. I think either people time their pulls for the -rc releases too, or it’s just a matter of many developers actually having a somewhat normal Mon-Fri workweek these days and they close the week by sending my their pull request. Regardless of why, it meant that my “oh, things are really calming down nicely” state on Thursday changed to “Uhhuh, not quite yet” on Friday – when more than half the commits for this whole -rc release came in.
Oh well.