Public SourceMage Discussion List

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:43:38 Jeremy Blosser wrote:
<snip>
> Eric, I'd like to see some kind of hard freeze added into the -rc release
> process.  I don't like major changes going in at the very end just to get
> past bugs flagged gating that no one has had time to look at.  If people
> are going to do that they should be required to do it <n> days before the
> release happens, where <n> is at least something greater than 1 (I'd really
> say at least 3 or 4).  Fixes that want to go in after the freeze (such as
> fixes for gating bugs) could be allowed but they'd always push the release
> date back to at least <n> days from when they are applied.  This was
> discussed briefly on IRC at the end of the last release cycle but nothing
> was actually put into the process for it.  Thoughts?

I believe a 3 day freeze would be good. I'll update the Stable release 
process 
notes on the wiki with it, if no one disagrees or has reasons to change it.

-sandalle

-- 
Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us PGP: 0xA8EFDD61  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  http://counter.li.org/  #196285

Attachment: pgpVXbAh0WC5Q.pgp
Description: PGP signature