On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 07:16:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:12:03 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
Anyhow, this -rc cycle has been quite the firehose in MM and I'm feeling a need to slow things down for additional stabilization and so people hopefully get additional bandwidth to digest the material we've added this far. So I think I'll just cherrypick [1/7] for now. A great flood of positive review activity would probably make me revisit that ;)
Kalesh - I do intend to look at this series when I have a chance. My review workload has been insane so it's hard to keep up at the moment.
Andrew - This cycle has been crazy, speaking from point of view of somebody doing a lot of review, it's been very very exhausting from this side too, and this kind of work can feel a little... thankless... sometimes :)
I hear you. I'm shedding most everything now, to give us a couple of weeks to digest.
Thanks, much appreciated! :)
I feel like we maybe need a way to ask people to slow down, sometimes at least.
Yup, I'm sending submitters private emails explaining the situation.
And again, much appreciated :)
Maybe they should be public emails, I find it a hard call.
Yeah it can be hard to get that balance right. Maybe public is better when we're deeper in the rc and there's a general load problem?
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'?
Of course I'm being a bit selfish here as I'm on holiday in the next merge window and hope forlornly to reduce the mail I come back to :P
Anyway, TL;DR: I think we need to be mindful of reviewer sanity as a factor in all this too :)
(I am spekaing at Kernel Recipes then going on a very-badly-needed 2.5 week vacataion afterwards over the merge window so I hope to stave off burnout that way. Be good if I could keep mails upon return to 3 digits, but I have my doubts :P)
I'd blow that in three days ;)
Haha yeah I bet :)
Cheers, Lorenzo