On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:36:34 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com wrote:
Perhaps being less accepting of patches during merge window is one aspect, as the merge window leading up to this cycle was almost the same review load as when the cycle started.
I'm having trouble understanding what you said here?
Sorry, what I mean to say is that in mm we're pretty open to taking stuff in the merge window, esp. now we have mm-new.
And last merge window my review load felt similar to during a cycle, which was kind of crazy.
So I wonder if we should be less accommodating and simply say 'sorry it's the merge window, no submissions accepted'?
hm, I always have a lot of emails piled up by the time mm-stable gets merged upstream. That ~1 week between "we merged" and "-rc1" is a nice time to go through that material and add it to mm-new. I think it smooths things out. I mean, this is peak time for people to be considering the new material?
(ot, that backlog is always >400 emails and a lot of that gets tossed out anyway - either it's just too old so I request a refresh or there was a new version, or review was unpromising, etc).