On Oct 27, 2011, at 10:38 AM, John W Vines wrote: > There has been some discussion about branching 1.4. There have been some > rounds of testing done against a few iterations and we're trying to wind it > down so we can be prepared for release. Unofficially we've been operating > under a semi-feature freeze to avoid larger disruptions to the testing. For > the sake of openness though, we seriously need to formally declare a feature > freeze. I feel the best way to do this is to branch 1.4, this way 1.5 feature > development can continue while we root out large scale testing bugs in the > 1.4 branch. > > Mentors- How long is an appropriate time to wait between announcing and > carrying forward with branching? Should we put it up to vote or is simply no > one objecting to branching within the timeframe sufficient?
Up to you guys so long as this is what the community decides on the process and, ideally, it's documented. Regards, Alan
