<div dir="ltr">+1 on the idea!<div><br></div><div>But I suggest we do it in a separate fork, for 4 reasons: (1) sometimes we can't merge both patches when presents "competing" features, ie., improve vs re-design activities list, so we will probably need more branches and (2) we just passed feature freeze deadline, so we should avoid having a bunch of new features PR at this stage because is confusing., (3) we can avoid unnecessary patches reverts if these features gets merged by accident and (4) we have mentors who are not maintainers and don't have commit access, but we can grant them access to the fork.</div><div><br></div><div>I can host it in my account.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">yes. I think it is a very good idea.<br>
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-walter<br>
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:06 AM, James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> I like that idea. The effort in merging later is much less than the<br>
> effort in negotiating with the contributors through patches alone, and<br>
> there's less risk of contributions being lost.<br>
><br>
> For contributors that withdraw before merge, it also leaves things in<br>
> a state where another contributor can take over the responsibility to<br>
> merge, or the release engineer can do so if they like something.<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:15:51AM +0000, Sam P. wrote:<br>
>> Hi Martin,<br>
>><br>
>> I was just noticing that the GCI started today, meaning lots of unfamiliar<br>
>> contributors will come with their feature patches.<br>
>><br>
>> Can we make a new-features branch to merge them into? I think that is a better<br>
>> idea than patches; patches get lost really easily! Maybe we could just tag pull<br>
>> requests `merge-after-freeze` or something?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>> Sam<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:11 am Martin Abente <[1]<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hello everyone,<br>
>><br>
>> Following with our roadmap [1], we are now feature freezed. Thanks to all<br>
>> who contributed with new features this cycle, now is time for testing and<br>
>> fixing bugs! I will be providing 0.103.1 tarballs and release notes soon.<br>
>><br>
>> @commiters: please keep this in mind while reviewing and pushing changes :)<br>
>><br>
>> Regards,<br>
>> Martin.<br>
>><br>
>> Refs:<br>
>> 1. [2]<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap#Freezes" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap#Freezes</a><br>
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