Linus recently told kernel maintainers that since the rhythm of the project’s development cycle will conflict with the upcoming Christmas Eve, maintainers must ensure that their development work is completed before the holiday.

Linus released Linux 6.1-rc7 this past weekend.he is in the mailexpress, I thought that Thanksgiving would affect the development of the kernel, but the reality was contrary to his judgment-the holiday did not slow down the development progress. Therefore, Linus decided to release another rc8 for Linux 6.1. At this pace, the Linux 6.2 merge window falls just in time for the Christmas holidays.

In this regard, Linus said that during the next merge window, he will enforce the rules more “toughly” than usual. According to community rules, developers should prepare patches to be submitted before the merge window opens.But now, he wants all patches to be committedbe done before christmas, if he receives the PR later than this time. He will defer the merger until the next cycle.

Finally, Linus wants everyone to come to a complete consensus on this and stop sending him messages that are clearly not wrong.

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