On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:49 AM Richard Guy Briggs [off-list ref] wrote:

On 2020-09-23 10:29, Paul Moore wrote:

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I've gone over this revision a couple of times now and it looks okay,
but past experience is whispering in my ear that perhaps this is
better to wait on this for the next cycle so it gets a full set of
-rcX releases.  Thoughts?

I thought I had lots of time since we were just at the end of the
previous cycle when this failed the previous time...  Ran out yet
again...  (there were two weeks of PTO and a devel system rebuild in
there somewhere...)

We are at -rc6 and assuming v5.9 is released after -rc7 that would
give this roughly a week and a half in v5.9-rcX; considering the
history of this patch (reverted, obvious problems in development) I'm
not confident -rc6 provides enough soak time (even if we go to -rc8 I
remain skeptical).  In addition, we've got a history of not taking new
work that isn't a bug-fix past the -rc5/-rc6 timeframe.  This is why
I'm debating holding this until after the merge window.

It isn't my call.

I asked for your thoughts on the matter, surely you have the liberty
to comment on your own opinion :)

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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com