On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> 
> > At 01:24 PM 3/23/2004 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Georg Richter wrote:
> >> > Changing everything after an announced feature freeze sucks. It's 
> >> just
> >> > ignoring others (users, authors and publishers) - a loss of face. 
> >> Obviously
> >> > some people like this kind of policy - me not!
> >>
> >> I do agree with this.  There is no point in announcing a freeze if you
> >> turn around and change a bunch of fundamental things the next day.  
> >> If we
> >> are really going to go back and change all these method names then I 
> >> think
> >> the correct way to do it is to pull RC1 and let people know that we
> >> discovered some things that need to be cleaned up and we will attempt
> >> another freeze and RC1 at a later date.
> >
> > Huh? Now you're really going to confuse people. You can always have 
> > RC2 and more. As it is there will be enough meat to have an RC2 after 
> > bug fixes (things which weren't discovered before more people started 
> > testing the RC).
> 
> Two RC1s would be a clusterfuck.

So call it RC2.  The name is irrelevant.  The important part is to let 
people know that there are some big code-breaking changes happening and 
that just because a freeze and an RC was announced nobody should count on 
features and functions being frozen yet.  

-Rasmus

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