Linux: Enforcing the Merge Window

“Following a recent merge request, Linus Torvalds stressed that
he was serious about not wanting to merge any big changes after the
merge window closes, ‘get the changes in before -rc1, or just
*wait*. If they aren’t ready before the merge window opens, they
simply shouldn’t be merged at all.’ Jeff Garzik reiterated, ‘once
-rc1 is out there, that means the focus should be on stabilizing
the existing codebase. Pushing a big driver update means that
effort must restart from scratch. We just don’t want to go down
that road, which a big reason for the merge window in general.’
Further when it was noted that the recent changes were heavily
tested by the vendor, Jeff stressed the importance of community
testing…”

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