>On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>I, in my egocentrism, think it would make more sense to have a deadline
>>for submission rather than a deadline for acceptance,
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>It's both. We all know Linus doesn't have the time to keep
>forward-porting our hundreds of patches so he can only include
>patches into his kernel that apply to the exact same tree he
>has at that day.
>
>This (and the fact that Linus gets far too much email and patches
>to look at old ones) is bound to make the Halloween deadline stick
>for both submission and acceptance.
>
>I hope.
>
>regards,
>
>Rik
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>
That could be dealt with by letting people resend feature containing
patches that were first submitted by Halloween (forward porting them as
things progress) until they get a rejection or Linus announces he has
taken all that he wants from the queue.
A thundering herd of patches is an opportunity, not a problem, unless
they need to get applied by Halloween.;-)
-- Hans
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