Creator of Linux The latest update from Linus Torvalds (opens in a new tab)which details some key information for the first 6.1 release candidate, has some key messages and requests for project developers.
At the outset, he said that “we only have 11.5k non-merged commits during this merge window, compared to 13.5k last time”, which is “not exactly low, but less than the last few releases”.
We already wrote about Linux’s commitment to support Rust, and the latest news confirms that “initial Rust scaffolding” is part of the 6.1-rc1 release. He explains that “the actual real Rust code isn’t in the core yet, but the infrastructure is.”
Torvalds’ message to developers
Torvalds also took the opportunity to express his frustration with the number of late pull requests.
He says, “Yes, the merge window is two weeks, but that’s a lot to give me time to consider everything, not ‘two weeks to hastily put together a branch that you send to Linus on the Friday of the second week.’
In fact, his search for the developers of the project continues: “All “spend all night to get the newspaper the day before [deadline]’ is something that should have gone out the window after high school. Not for core development.”
The teacher-student threat continues: “You know who you are.”
While he asks for things to be sent to him before the merge window opens, Torvalds expresses his tolerance for some late entries, which he puts down to “life happens.”
This isn’t the first time Torvalds has had to ask developers to pull out a finger, and he suspects it won’t be the last, but moving forward, he hopes “more people can take this to heart.”
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