On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:23:44AM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was too hasty when declaring this freeze. Adam di Carlo assured me that > > the boot-floppies are just not ready yet, and won't be for a number of > > weeks even if they get help. Also, the count of release-critical bugs > > is going back up as fast as it came down. (I think that many of them > > are not really release-critical, but there are so many that just > > evaluating them takes a significant amount of time.) > > One of the best ways of getting the release-critical bugs under > control is to freeze potato. As long as we can upload packages, we > will upload bugs. If we freeze now, we can reduce the number of bugs > to a reasonable level over the next few weeks. By the time > boot-floppies are ready the bug count will be at a manageable level, > and potato will be ready for release.
How about a light freeze where we don't accept new packages until the next unstable. Then atleast we don't age the distribution, and we can still upgrade packages, and fix bugs. Ben