On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:21:38AM +0000, Damien Le Moal wrote: > On 2019/09/03 15:16, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 08:26:01PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > >> > >> Given that the merge window apparently won't close until Sept. 29, that > >> gives us more time to make any more minor tweaks. > > > > I think 5.3 final should be out at about Sep 15. Isn't that the > > traditional definition of closing the merge window? > > > > If we have an rc8, yes, 5.3 final will be on Sep 15. And then the merge window > for 5.4 opens for 2 weeks until Sep 29, no ? I've always considered the merge window the time to queue up patches in the maintainer trees, which would end with the release of the previous release.
