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[Dave Airlie]

On 13 December 2015 at 05:09, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So since Xmas is coming up and I've got an impending new arrival, I'm
>> betting this merge window might get a bit haphazard. So I'd like
>> people to start telling me now via git pull's what they'd like to get
>> in.
>
> So the rest of the world may not have an impending new arrival, but
> with pretty much everybody doing Christmas break, I don't really
> foresee opening the merge window immediately after the holidays. I
> can't reasonably expect people to get ready for the merge window while
> being drunk on eggnog or whatever.
>
> If 4.4 stays on the usual schedule (and there's currently no big
> reason to think it shouldn't), I'd do the final rc late December, and
> final release on the Sunday of Jan 3rd.
>
> But really, if I want people to be *ready* when the merge window
> opens, rather than start working on it, I'd better delay the opening
> of the merge window by at least a week.
>
> So right now my tentative plan is to open the 4.5 merge window on Jan 10th.

Cool I might be a bit late, but that should work for me.

>
> Can't help with your impending new arrival, though. I thought you said
> you had figured out why that kept happening?

I thought becoming a kernel hacker would fix it.

Dave.