Re: [RFC] How to accellerate the patch flow (or should we?)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2025, 22:12 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <87792693-58d9-4047-beae-38aa4c59ed41@app.fastmail.com>

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:

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>> The time taken during 7. is pretty much fixed and unless we are
>> willing to sacrifice the quality of the end result, cannot
>> reasonably be shortened (note that this is based on the assumption
>> that "find any remaining bugs while it is in 'next' before it hits
>> 'master'" philosophy is working, but we have never run experiments
>> to shorten this to say 3 days to see if we see more bugs on 'master'
>> yet).
>
> Maybe pure documentation changes could cook for less than seven days.

Yup, that kind of adjustment at the maintainer's discretion has already been applied, depending on the nature of a topic. Some truly trivial typofixes may not even go through 'next' but get applied to 'master' directly.

Thanks.