I approve of this plan. Thank you for your initiative to start the process.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:36 PM Mike Blumenkrantz < michael.blumenkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 < > felipe.m.alme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Christopher Michael > > <cp.mich...@samsung.com> 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 > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > 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 > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > 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 enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
