On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 09:35:00AM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > Mr Paquier this year announced his personal code freeze a few weeks > back on social media, which seemed like an interesting idea I might > adopt. Perhaps that is what some other people are doing without > saying so, and perhaps the time they are using for that is the end of > the calendar year. I might still be naturally inclined to crunch-like > behaviour, but it wouldn't be at the same time as everyone else, > except all the people who follow the same advice.
That's more linked to the fact that I was going silent without a laptop for a few weeks before the end of the release cycle, and a way to say to not count on me, while I was trying to keep my room clean to avoid noise for others who would rush patches. It is a vacation period for schools in Japan as the fiscal year finishes at the end of March, while the rest of the world still studies/works, so that makes trips much easier with areas being less busy when going abroad. If you want to limit commit activity during this period, the answer is simple then: require that all the committers live in Japan. Jokes apart, I really try to split commit effort across the year and not rush things at the last minute. If something's not agreed upon and commit-ready by the 15th of March, the chances that I would apply it within the release cycle are really slim. That's a kind of personal policy I have in place for a few years now. -- Michael
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