Zack's Kernel News
Zack's Kernel News
Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
Adjusting Patch Submission Guidelines
Kevin Cernekee posted some patches to document some changes to the kernel development process. The idea was to reduce the load on maintainers during the merge window. For example, one patch documented the idea that patch submitters should send only urgent patches during the merge window – that is, the time after a new kernel version and before the first -rc release.
There was a very mixed response to Kevin's patches. Christoph Hellwig, for example, pointed out that there was no reason to avoid sending regular patches during a merge window, because maintainers could easily queue up patches to apply after the window had closed. Christoph suggested amending Kevin's documentation to simply say that folks should not expect replies during merge windows and that they should avoid resending patches during that time.
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