I'm opposed to having a blanket policy that there can be no new features at all added during a freeze.
As an example, https://phab.enlightenment.org/D6247 is a feature which is required in order to improve test reliability--something which should be at the top of the list when working on a release. A strict "no features at all" policy would prevent this from being merged until after the release, leading to unreliable testing during the release cycle. This level of pedantry is not beneficial to the project. A freeze should mean that features are not likely to be added. It should not, however, mean that features cannot be added. Having a strict policy for this case does nothing more than establish such a policy for the sake of having a strict policy instead of having a policy which benefits the project. Anyone electing to merge features during the freeze should be cognizant of this, and should also be aware that the rest of the community may disagree and overrule the decision. On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:10 PM Felipe Magno de Almeida < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Christopher Michael > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/08/2018 11:17 AM, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Stefan is off for this entire month, so let's try organizing the > release a > >> bit while he's gone! > > [snip] > > >> * During the freeze period, all newly-submitted features (ie. anything > >> submitted on or after the freeze start date) must go through patch > review > >> and receive 2+ approvals from core developers; if employed by Samsung, > the > >> developers must not work for the same office. > > > > I was under the impression that one of the points of a freeze is that no > new > > features could be added and we can focus on bug fixes. Your mention of > > newly-submitted features "after the freeze start date" is a little > > misleading.... > > Yes. I thought new features should land only after the release. I don't see > why we should allow new features. > > [snip] > > > Cheers, > > Chris > >> > >> regards, > >> > >> Mike > > Regards, > -- > Felipe Magno de Almeida > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
