Kernel prepatch 3.15-rc8 — and the start of the 3.16 merge window
Linus has released the 3.15-rc8 prepatch
after concluding that this development cycle needed one more week of
stabilization. But has also decided to go ahead and start the 3.16 merge
window before the 3.15 release, mostly as a way of avoiding a conflict with
a planned family vacation. "So let's try to see how well that works
- the last weeks of the release tends to be me just waiting around to make
sure nothing bad is happening, so doing this kind of overlapping
development *should* work fine. Maybe it works so well that we'll end up
doing it in the future even if there *isn't* some kind of scheduling
conflict that makes me want to start the merge window before I'm 100%
comfortable doing the release for the previous version."