Am 16.01.14 12:38, schrieb Kristján Valur Jónsson: > I suppose different projects have different ways, but I'm actually talking > about commercial projects with which I am somewhat familiar. > Once a project goes into feature freeze, it is branched off so that continued > feature development can commence, while > Defects are ironed out in the branch. Bugs obviously get priority. This > also applies to open source, I should think.
I agree with Matthias that it does not (apply): - "Bugs obviously get priority". They do not, in free software. Priority gets instead what contributors like to work on. - "continued feature development can commence". This is precisely what we do not want to happen. Instead, we want to direct attention towards bug fixing. > Meanwhile, a keen contributor does not have to sit idle waiting for > an extended RC phase to play out. The hope is that, instead of sitting idle, they actually start working on bugs, and contributing to finishing the release. With a DVCS, there is of course an alternative, where one could start working on new features while the trunk is in feature-freeze. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
