[Sugar-devel] Feature Freeze

[Walter Bender]

yes. I think it is a very good idea.

-walter

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:06 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> I like that idea.  The effort in merging later is much less than the
> effort in negotiating with the contributors through patches alone, and
> there's less risk of contributions being lost.
>
> For contributors that withdraw before merge, it also leaves things in
> a state where another contributor can take over the responsibility to
> merge, or the release engineer can do so if they like something.
>
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:15:51AM +0000, Sam P. wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I was just noticing that the GCI started today, meaning lots of unfamiliar
>> contributors will come with their feature patches.
>>
>> Can we make a new-features branch to merge them into? I think that is a better
>> idea than patches; patches get lost really easily! Maybe we could just tag pull
>> requests `merge-after-freeze` or something?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:11 am Martin Abente <[1]martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello everyone,
>>
>>     Following with our roadmap [1], we are now feature freezed. Thanks to all
>>     who contributed with new features this cycle, now is time for testing and
>>     fixing bugs! I will be providing 0.103.1 tarballs and release notes soon.
>>
>>     @commiters: please keep this in mind while reviewing and pushing changes :)
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Martin.
>>
>>     Refs:
>>     1. [2]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap#Freezes
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>> References:
>>
>> [1] mailto:martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com
>> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap#Freezes
>> [3] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> [4] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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