Linus Torvalds wants more help from Linux developers

Date:
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 20:04:26 +0000

Description:
Posting about Linux version 6.1-rc1, Torvalds urges developers to submit
their work before the deadline - not at it.

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Linux creator Linus Torvalds latest update , which details some key information for the first release candidate of version 6.1, has some underlying messages and pleas to the projects developers.

He opens by saying that we only have 11.5k non-merge commits during this
merge window, compared to 13.5k last time around, which is not exactly tiny, but smaller than the last few releases.

Weve already written about Linuxs commitment to supporting Rust , and the latest news confirms that the initial Rust scaffolding forms part of version 6.1-rc1. He explains that there is no actual real Rust code in the kernel
yet, but the infrastructure is there. Torvalds message to developers

Torvalds also took the opportunity to express his frustration with the amount of late pull requests.

He says: Yes, the merge window is two weeks, but that's very much to allow me time to look things over, not two weeks to hurriedly put together a branch that you send Linus on Friday of the second week. Read more

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In fact, his dig at the projects developers continues: The whole do an all-nighter to get the paper in the day before the [deadline] is something that should have gone out the window after highschool. Not for kernel development.

The teacher-pupil-style threat continues: You know who you are.

While he asks that things are sent to him before the merge window opens, Torvalds expresses his tolerance for some late entries, which he puts down to life happens.

This isnt the first time that Torvalds has had to ask developers to pull
their finger out, and he suspects it wont be the last, either, however moving forward, he hopes that more people could take it to heart. Check out the best Linux laptops and the best laptops for programming



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