linux-kernel - linux-next: no releases after tomorrow for 10 days (Was: Linux 4.3-rc6)

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Message-ID: <20151021103113.29534482@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:31:13 +1100
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>,
	<linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: linux-next: no releases after tomorrow for 10 days (Was: Linux
 4.3-rc6)

Hi Linus,

On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 16:45:42 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Things continue to be calm, and in fact have gotten progressively
> calmer. All of which makes me really happy, although my suspicious
> nature looks for things to blame. Are people just on their best
> behavior because the Kernel Summit is imminent, and everybody is
> putting their best foot forward?
> 
> Or maybe this just ended up being one of those rare painless releases
> when nothing bad happens.
> 
> That would be lovely.

I will be away from linux-next starting Friday until Monday week (i.e.
Nov 2) attending Kernel Summit and taking a short break.  Two of my
past victims/helpers will also be at Kernel Summit.

So if you do the usual -rc7 (this Sunday) then release (a week later),
there will be no linux-next releases during that time.   If this is
seen as a problem, you could delay the release, or suprise everyone and
release this weekend :-)

I suspect a reasonable amount of code for v4.4 is still pending as we
only have ~8500 commits in linux-next so far (and nothing in the vfs
tree for example).  I would expect about 10000 commits in a normal
release.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
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