Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 04/03/2021 13:43, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> One additional reason for this note is that I want to not just warn
>> people to not run this if you have a swapfile - even if you are
>> personally not impacted (like I am, and probably most people are -
>> swap partitions all around) - I want to make sure that nobody starts
>> new topic branches using that 5.12-rc1 tag. I know a few developers
>> tend to go "Ok, rc1 is out, I got all my development work into this
>> merge window, I will now fast-forward to rc1 and use that as a base
>> for the next release". Don't do it this time. It may work perfectly
>> well for you because you have the common partition setup, but it can
>> end up being a horrible base for anybody else that might end up
>> bisecting into that area.
> 
> Would it make sense to do a -rc2, now, so new topic branches can be
> started on that one?

+1 to this idea. I already applied few patches, well, on top of
v5.12-rc1, so would be nice if I stop this sooner than later.

Best regards,
Krzysztof