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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-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Server: rspam06 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 293E5140006 X-Stat-Signature: itm3wr6kn6f9cewfrx467m9tj1kuojza X-HE-Tag: 1758151955-15619 X-HE-Meta: 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 oGVaDMz6 T5Th0cgfuDEJV7JMMZbk8GjRLmjF9rKAbw2m+lQquoxgnDEHAhBaxyScIzObXsHRW4+xcv7YQs7D5/pJqp3J5NUv/K1RCy7AIvC76UH/RmUJL2WhC2P8hYPE7/+I6Y+ksh8SIBxLdPPDAjoTK3fMpMilFRTKJuhUMiemqnAbKhrw8VgC+ru/bDfl5mn0CnLj/kIoL1HVCn79BZJzt6sD0PXA6oW/7NCMo7P6o8t9gQooMeThdrXzA3VviiHRyjZbsCDGgVEnHRJ7vUpM+saXVbBLWAw== 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 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:36:34 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > > > > > 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? > > Sorry, what I mean to say is that in mm we're pretty open to taking stuff in the > merge window, esp. now we have mm-new. > > And last merge window my review load felt similar to during a cycle, which > was kind of crazy. > > So I wonder if we should be less accommodating and simply say 'sorry it's > the merge window, no submissions accepted'? hm, I always have a lot of emails piled up by the time mm-stable gets merged upstream. That ~1 week between "we merged" and "-rc1" is a nice time to go through that material and add it to mm-new. I think it smooths things out. I mean, this is peak time for people to be considering the new material? (ot, that backlog is always >400 emails and a lot of that gets tossed out anyway - either it's just too old so I request a refresh or there was a new version, or review was unpromising, etc).