Re:Torvalds: I've pulled this, but if problems, ext4 is goin...
by xorcist on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:19PM
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4.13 is due for release probably this week. Linus cut -rc3 a week ago, which was small, and nothing serious have been heard. Normally only critical fixes would be merged this late which might warrant another rc, but this is Ted T'so, a wizard who has been involved in Linux since before it had networking, so his opinions have merit.
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Re:Torvalds: I've pulled this, but if problems, ext4 is goin...
by tytso on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:39PM
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In general we always get to -rc6 to -rc8 before we do a release, with perhaps -rc7 being the most common. Since the merge window (before -rc1) is two weeks, this translates to a two month release cycle. So using a time-based release cycle paradigm, -rc3 isn't _that_ late, although as I acknowledged in another comment in this thread, it was a bit marginal.
(And by the way it's "Ts'o", but the wrong spelling is all over the Internet at this point.)