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by gioele 4434 days ago
> "In Windows, the [repository] node I was working on was 4 levels removed from the root. The periodicity of integration decayed exponentially and unpredictably as you approached the root so it ended up that it took between 1 and 3 months for my code to get to the root node, and some multiple of that for it to reach the other nodes."

Does it take less time for a patch to the graphic system (for example) to trickle up to the Linus' tree? And to end up in an LTS distro?
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bazzargh 4434 days ago
Depends what it is, but commonly - no. There's been research on this:

http://mcis.polymtl.ca/publications/2013/msr_jojo.pdf

What percentage of submitted patches has been integrated successfully, and how much time did it take? Around 33% of patches are accepted. Reviewing time has been dropping down to 1–3 months, while integration time steadily has been increasing towards 1–3 months, bringing the total time to 3–6 months.

That's based on 8 years of data.

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