Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters

Misleading headline, He's saying to submit before the merge window, not on the last Friday of the merge window.

Linus has been complaining about patches arriving late in the merge window for at least a decade at this point. I still don’t understand why he hasn’t decided that the first week is the dead line for submissions and the second week is only for review and the eventual shenanigans linked to the review. It would definitely solve the problem.

I may have missed it, but I can’t see where he tells kernel devs to “grow up” in the linked page?

Speaking of college and all nighters, I&#x27;m reminded of the work patterns of teachers. Particularly primary education teachers.<p>They put in immense amounts of work during the school year. In exchange for that summer vacation. And pay and job satisfaction, we hope. We can increase pay, and decrease classroom sizes.<p>But those teachers are still going to take home work and joke with their partners about it at the kitchen table, right?<p>What&#x27;s the other solution? Doubling teacher employment and decreasing classroom sizes to half-day?<p>It&#x27;s a possibility. I&#x27;ll call that bluff that it comes without drama.<p>I&#x27;ll bookmark this post, you know, because I&#x27;m slow to recall.

If people continuously fail to follow the process (and we&#x27;re not talking about general population here) then maybe the process should be reviewed and changed so he does not end up with a two weeks work crammed into 2 days.

This is something I have been trying to root out at my big company inc. Until I said something deploying late Friday was the norm and all the issues that come with it. Now we deploy on Monday and have a whole week to fix issues and then rest. Rather than cobble shit together by Friday and then throw it over the wall.

Some people produce their best work under pressure, even if that pressure is self-inflicted.<p>Turn the merge window beginning into a deadline, and only accept follow-on patches during the following 2 weeks review.