<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, C. Scott Ananian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org">cscott@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Let's hammer this out in person at the planning meeting, because it<br> depends on OLPC picking a release date.</blockquote><div><br><br>Yeah, make sense. As I said, I think we (as SL) should defer decisions about the freeze slip until the meetings anyway.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">  I've been arguing for March,<br> but I don't think there is consensus on that yet.  If OLPC aims for<br> early March, and you slip Sugar feature freeze to late January, then<br> you're right, we're reasonably consistent.  If OLPC decides to aim for<br> April or later, however, then it seems we're getting out of sync.<br> <br> I'd like to avoid the situation we had in 8.2, where sugar was in<br> string freeze while OLPC was still in active development, with lots of<br> major features not even written yet.  We worked that out very<br> successfully, via lots of "special exceptions" to the string freeze,<br> but I'd like to try to avoid having to go that way in 9.1 if we can.<br> It would be better if we all just agree on some dates.</blockquote><div><br><br>I think it will be possible to do better than 8.2, especially if we can get OLPC to settle on solid dates the week of the 17 :)<br><br>Marco<br> </div></div></div>