Re: Newbie: When does the merge window come by?

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Feb 22 2014 - 11:48:15 EST


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 01:56:30PM +0530, Gideon D'souza wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I apologize for the ignorance but I haven't been able to tell when the
> Linus' merge window is open.

Unless you are a subsystem maintainer, the merge window shouldn't matter
for you.

> >From this page:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
>
> Questions I have:
> > I notice that there is a 3.14-rc3 tag so I'm assuming that is the latest/current version?
> > After the last rc is there some announcement that the merge window is open?
> > During the merge window (of 1-2 weeks) stuff for various subsystems and linux-next are sent in correct?

Have you read Documentation/development-process/ ? The files there
should explain this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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