linux-kernel - Re: Linux 4.20-rc6

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Date:   Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:52:30 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 4.20-rc6

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:49 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Most of it looks pretty small and normal. Would I have preferred for
> there to be less churn? Yes. But it's certainly smaller than rc5 was,
> so we're moving in the right direction, and we have at least one more
> rc to go.
>
> I say "at least", not because I'm particularly worried about the
> technical details and any outstanding bugs, but because of the whole
> holiday season timing. I still suspect that what I'll do is release
> 4.20 just before xmas (so with the usual "rc7->final" cadence) but
> then just leave a dead week for the holiday season. Again encouraging
> everybody to send in their pull request for the merge window *before*
> the holiday season, but I might just either ignore them for a week, or
> take it very slow and easy.

Linus, due to my vacation schedule and possibility that Darren might
be also busy with some stuff, would be okay to send PR this week, for
example?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko