linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.5 released

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Date:	Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:26:59 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.5 released

Hi Linus,

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:16:00 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> And as usual, this obviously means that the merge window for 3.6 is
> open, although I hope people will spend a little bit of time testing
> and beating on 3.5 before pushing on with the merge window.

Well, you could force the issue by reserving the first couple of days of
the merge window for bug fixes only ... that may cover the first flush
of "Linus has done a release, let check it out" bugs and get those fixes
much closer (bisection-wise) to their causes.  Just an idea.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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