[KJ] what's the merge window for janitor fixups?

* [KJ] what's the merge window for janitor fixups?
@ 2007-01-22  8:58 Robert P. J. Day
  2007-01-22 15:47 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
  2007-01-22 15:53 ` Robert P. J. Day
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2007-01-22  8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernel-janitors

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  what's the merge window for all of these patches submitted through
the KJ list to get into the main git tree?  from somewhere, i recall
that there's one frantic merge that happens for two weeks after a new
release, but it's not clear that that's enough time to get in
everything that deserves to be merged.

  as an example, i've attached my current style script which scans the
tree looking for obvious cleanups (some of which i already know have
been submitted and ACKed, so not *all* of that is relevant -- i'm just
showing the results against the latest "git pull" of linus' tree.)

  as one example, you can see how much code can be simplified by using
the ARRAY_SIZE() macro.  there's over 250 lines, and it makes sense
that all of that should be changed since that process is already
underway.  but if it's going to be done subsystem by subsystem, it's
not clear whether it can all get done by the time the merge window
closes.  and i'm guessing it would be at least a little frustrating
for someone working on a patch to suddenly get its merging cut off
until the next major release.

  so what's the policy on when merges are accepted into the main git
repo?  knowing that would make a difference in how people schedule
their efforts to do any cleanup.

rday

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