Linux 6.1-rc7 (UPDATED)
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Linux 6.1-rc7
Another week has gone by. It started quietly, and I was fairly sure that it being Thanksgiving week here in the US would mean that it would continue fairly quietly too.
But I was wrong. The end of the week was the usual "people send me their stuff on Friday", and the weekend hardly slowed people down. And so the stats for this week look almost exactly the same as they did for the previous two weeks.
And it's not just the statistics - everything feels very similar. There is really nothing here that makes me at all worried, except that it's just a bit more than I'm comfortable with. It should just have slowed down more by now.
As a result, I'm now pretty sure that this is going to be one of those "we'll have an extra week and I'll make an rc8" releases. Which then in turn means that now the next merge window will be solidly in the holiday season. Whatever. It is what it is.
Now, this means that I will be more hard-nosed than usual in the next merge window: the usual rule is that things that I get sent for the merge window should have been all ready _before_ the merge window opened. But with the merge window happening largely during the holiday season, I'll just be enforcing that pretty strictly. I want to see all that work in the pull requests having been done *before* the festivities, not while you're imbibing your egg-nog and just generally being stressed out about the season. If I get sent pull requests late, I'll just go "this can wait". Ok?
Now, I suspect that everybody _else_ wants to get their work out before the holiday season starts too, so I hope that we're all in complete and violent agreement about this all. But I thought I'd start making people aware of this.
Anyway, enough about the next release. Right now we're still in the last couple of weeks of this one, so let's make it count. Go test, and can we _please_ just start calming things down? Don't send me anything that isn't a clear and present bug. No more last-minute cleanups. Hear?
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Kernel prepatch 6.1-rc7 [LWN.net]
The 6.1-rc7 kernel prepatch has been released for testing.
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Linux 6.1-rc7
UPDATE
Now in The Register:
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Linus Torvalds to be ‘more hard-nosed’ for Linux 6.2 • The Register
Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has warned contributors that the rhythm of the project's development cycle will clash with Christmas, so developers need to make sure they ready their work before the holiday season.
The warning came in Torvalds's weekly kernel development update in which he announced release candidate 7 for Linux 6.1 and observed that – contrary to his predictions – the Thanksgiving holiday did not slow work on the kernel.
"The end of the week was the usual 'people send me their stuff on Friday', and the weekend hardly slowed people down," he wrote, before describing the work left on version 6.1 as "just a bit more than I'm comfortable with. It should just have slowed down more by now."
"As a result, I'm now pretty sure that this is going to be one of those 'we'll have an extra week and I'll make an rc8' releases," he added, noting that one consequence of that decision is the two-week merge window during which developers submit code for the next cut of the kernel "will be solidly in the holiday season."
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Linus Torvalds warns the next Linux release could be a real grinch | TechRadar
Linux creator Linus Torvalds may have just put a damper on many Kernel developers' holiday plans.
Torvalds, who still has final authority for updates to Linux's core kernel, told developers (opens in new tab): "I want to see all that work in the pull requests having been done *before* the festivities, not while you're imbibing your egg-nog and just generally being stressed out about the season."
The famously hard-nosed leader added: "If I get sent pull requests late, I'll just go 'this can wait'. Ok?"