I am always suprised that people are not concerned about this: Linus @ https://lwn.net/Articles/572706/ https://lwn.net/Articles/572706/ "But the fact that I'

I am always suprised that people are not concerned about this: Linus @ https://lwn.net/Articles/572706/ https://lwn.net/Articles/572706/ "But the fact that I'm going to be (effectively) off-line next week means that I'm not opening the merge window for 3.13 yet - since I won't have the bandwidth to really do merges anyway. That doesn't mean that you can't send me pull request for the merge window early, of course - maintainers can always send their pull requests early rather than late, if they have everything lined up and ready. But if you have some feature that still wants polishing, you basically get a free week to do that. So the two-week merge window for 3.13 will start a week from now. You have an extra week. But that also means that I will be doubly disappointed in anybody who then leaves their merge request until the end of that two-week merge window." Linus is in absolute control of the kernel development -- this works quite well, but if he gets sick or whatever then how quickly and well will the community find a substitute?