I'm not a kernel developer, but I'm not sure if it's entirely accurate to call it an 80/20 split. Sure, Linus only merges new features during 20% of the releas

I'm not a kernel developer, but I'm not sure if it's entirely accurate to call it an 80/20 split. Sure, Linus only merges new features during 20% of the release process, but as far as I can tell (again, not a kernel developer) most everyone else continues to work on new features outside of the merge window, and just submits them during that 20%, rather than spending that 80% only bugfixing.