Linus's mid-merge-window reflections

Courtesy LWN.net  Thu, 07/17/2008 - 07:17

Linus has sent out an announcement that the 2.6.27 merge window is halfway done, and that he's taking a break for a few days.

"In the last couple of days I _have_ merged 50+ trees, and while there's been some 'heated discussion' about some of them (you know who you are ;), I'm hoping that we're actually in reasonably good shape even though it's in the middle of the merge window, and that people will test out the snapshot kernels...


 

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