On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM 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 feel like we maybe need a way to ask people to slow down, sometimes at least.
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.
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)
Hi Lorenzo,
Absolutely, take care of yourself. We all appreciate the amount of work you put into reviewing :)
Have a good talk and enjoy your vacation. Don't worry about the backlog.
-- Kalesh
Cheers, Lorenzo