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Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline
- 10g1k 4y agoThe merge window is the merge window. If you want commits earlier, set your merge window earlier. Your review stage is to be scheduled after the commits are made, not during the last random() days of the merge window.
- klipt 4y agoMaybe he needs to personalize the merge window more. Hash your git username. Mod by 14. That day in the two week cycle is now your merge deadline.
- plaguepilled 4y agoAgreed. This is a fixable problem.
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- dtx1 4y agoYou can really see that Linus has been working on his communication skills. He's become much friendlier than in ye olden days. Kudos to him for that.
- bsder 4y agoHe created an artifical hard deadline. Some of these people's job evaluations depend on meeting that deadline. What the fsck did he expect would happen? If he doesn't want this, then he needs to switch to either soft deadlines or individual functional unit deadlines or ... This is ALL on Linus.
- azornathogron 4y agoIt's not even remotely Linus's fault that some organizations have badly designed or capricious performance review systems, or that their employees aren't given sufficient time to complete projects without crunching.
- bsder 4y agoMeanwhile ... for those of us back in reality ... There is a reason for the legions of jokes about "deadlines and the wooshing sound they make as they go by".
- imperialdrive 4y agoI actually lol'd. Thanks!