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x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 0DD82C0004 X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam07 X-Stat-Signature: uexp5x885t8ze6qqq51bxwa38t395jpa X-HE-Tag: 1758075407-218835 X-HE-Meta: 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 ES4SGTwY 2yJL90mdOMFhzc8ULZ3xzr78t0T/3MEpHIONrQhTiH50IBZBvlTJR70QXaf6+sTfd1Djm3lRJQGUPDoVV2UMFrkqAUlAkSHiOV0MScsIpDCMGyZPlx697+89Gfhrblsjdz8OM7kDuG7QnppQ/yV7/AKlJxXQKSE6C1IHHF6pHZ6oIPr/7ljsR485ajZB+UVyHJwvrMKLcKVNdEmLOAhB84D9o2eD+bikq2H+V+w7wWR7gr/ZgqWyZ/RmwyYoMwTI4bZjRna/laAcdqpA2WXyjzMImhA== X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:12:03 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Anyhow, this -rc cycle has been quite the firehose in MM and I'm > > feeling a need to slow things down for additional stabilization and so > > people hopefully get additional bandwidth to digest the material we've > > added this far. So I think I'll just cherrypick [1/7] for now. A > > great flood of positive review activity would probably make me revisit > > that ;) > > > > Kalesh - I do intend to look at this series when I have a chance. My review > workload has been insane so it's hard to keep up at the moment. > > Andrew - This cycle has been crazy, speaking from point of view of somebody > doing a lot of review, it's been very very exhausting from this side too, > and this kind of work can feel a little... thankless... sometimes :) I hear you. I'm shedding most everything now, to give us a couple of weeks to digest. > I feel like we maybe need a way to ask people to slow down, sometimes at > least. Yup, I'm sending submitters private emails explaining the situation. Maybe they should be public emails, I find it a hard call. > Perhaps being less accepting of patches during merge window is one aspect, > as the merge window leading up to this cycle was almost the same review > load as when the cycle started. I'm having trouble understanding what you said here? > Anyway, TL;DR: I think we need to be mindful of reviewer sanity as a factor > in all this too :) > > (I am spekaing at Kernel Recipes then going on a very-badly-needed 2.5 week > vacataion afterwards over the merge window so I hope to stave off burnout > that way. Be good if I could keep mails upon return to 3 digits, but I have > my doubts :P) I'd blow that in three days ;)