On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:55:40AM +0000, Chris Withers wrote: > Chris McDonough wrote: > >FWIW, the reason that there is a flurry of activity before any release > >is because people want to see features in a stable release version and > >by nature (IMHO) programmers are procrastinators. ;-) > > This doesn't fit with normal open source practice. Why are we starting to > operate like this?
It what world do you live, and can I move there? Every large open source project I've particpated in or kept track of has had this problem - it's _really hard_ to turn down cool new patches just because your supposed to be in feature freeze, trying to get a stable release out. What do _you_ think 'normal open source practice' is? Ross -- Ross Reedstrom, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Director phone: 713-348-6166 Gulf Coast Consortium for Bioinformatics fax: 713-348-6182 Rice University MS-39 Houston, TX 77005 _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )