On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:01:08AM +1000, Russell Dickenson <[email protected]> wrote: > What BEACH!!! Hungary doesn't have any beaches...ummm...does it?
Whatever. I can ride in the mountains as well, the result is the same. :) > I'm still a little unsure of why changes that are not bug fixes should > go into the repo within the last few weeks before a release is due. > Unless I become a developer, though, I can't speak with any authority > since I don't know what it's like maintaining packages, doing the > release etc. My intention is not requiring something that I don't do either. If I see the goal of doing so, I can fix bugs for two weeks without working on any new cool feature. Doing this is boring. _Really_ boring. I don't think anybody would do a lot of bugfix commits in a possible third week, either. And no, holding back a release just because there are 2 bugfixes in a week does not worth it. It worth if each developer fixes 5-10 bugs a day, but I'm sure nobody will do it after actively doing so for 2 weeks. Let's just fix as much bugs as we can and you'll see we'll all tired as hell, not wanting anything for the third week other than having a rest. ;) (Or working on some interesting new feature.) PS: And yes, the list is open for opinions of any developer, but I guess the affected developers are typically the ones who maintain a lot of packages (let's say who have >1k commits or so), so the opinion of the others about the bugfix weeks are interesting, but probably not so valuable. It feels a bit like underestimating the working bugfixing for such a long time takes - which is not a problem, since anyway I did not ever understand what's so hard fixing some bugs till I realised sometimes it takes 3-4 hours for me to debug just a single issue. ;) OK, enough rant, please just don't whine for more freeze time without a good reason, thanks.
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