Messages in this thread | | | From | Sedat Dilek <> | Date | Sat, 6 Mar 2021 08:01:55 +0100 | Subject | Re: Linux 5.12-rc1 |
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On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:34 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 12:35 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I wondered why there was approx. for 6 days no commits and got an > > answer from an LWN posting "5.12 Merge window delayed". > > Unsure, if there was a posting to LKML? > > There was no posting to lkml because lkml doesn't take html emails, > and I only had mobile data (and not even that for the first 24 hours > or so - even cell towers were down). > > I did send updates to several top-level maintainers and to the > users@kernel.org mailing list, so a lot of people knew about it, but > they in turn probably only ended up mentioning it on a need-to-know > basis. As you mention, LWN did have a mention of it, but you'd have to > find it. > > In normal times I would have just taken a laptop to the nearest > Starbucks and worked that way, but not in the pandemic. Plus the local > highway was actually shut down for three days because of downed trees > on the road (this was not a Texas-style electricity generation problem > - it was literally thousands of trees falling all over. We had one > miss our house by a couple of meters). > > Two weeks later, and the roadways are still littered with trees and > tons of branches everywhere you drive. > > And I didn't have a generator because our local power lines are > actually buried, and we very seldom lose electricity. But when all the > feeder lines are down because trees fell over, and it takes a week > first for the tree crews to clear the roads and then the electric > crews to replace literally miles of electric cable, it doesn't really > help all that much that the local lines are buried and all in good > working order ;) > > > Anyway, if you are not able to make your work someone else should jump > > in like Greg did once. > > It was an option, it didn't seem worth it. > > And part of _that_ was that it looked like "ok, a couple of days", and > then it just kept being "one more day" for several days. > > A lot of people lost power for just a day or two. > > The area I live in probably wasn't a huge priority, because it's > somewhat sparsely populated, and nice and wooded. > > Which is really nice most of the time. It's not quite so nice when you > can hear the trees keep falling around you, and you know you have a > few really big ones right next to the house.. ;^p >
Based on / Freely adapted from Goethe: I answer just when it suits me!
I can hardly imagine your feelings and/or emotions as I was NOT in such a situation.
I remember "Blackout Münsterland - Münsterländer Schneechaos 2005" [1] seen on German TV. 150km (approx. 92 miles) from my new home-town.
To make a story short: Be proud you made a merge-window happen in real 14 -6 = 8 days. That is amazing, really!
There exist emergency plans - especially for pandemic situations - here in Germany. For me it looks like no one cares - including the responsibles. Exceptional circumstances or you might say "CHAOS". Sometimes having no plan is good - but never forget your focus or targets.
I wanted to hear from you: Next time in such an exceptional situation I/we will do ...
And hey yah: Linux v5.12-rc2 on a Saturday Morning @ 06-Mar-2021. Congrats!
- Sedat -
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKeGHqrip8
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