Re: On cadence and collaboration
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 03:18:08PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:08:26AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Or is some incremental freeze still supposed to happen?
>
> During the talk/discussion at DebConf, IIRC Luk stated that
> incremental freezes had a negative effect because for many developers
> it was not clear what/when was going to be frozen. The logical
> consequence drawn there (again, IIRC) has been that the release team
> would prefer freezing all at once.
>
> Note, however, that we have always used to have unblocks during
> freezes; the policy on how unblocks are handled is completely
> orthogonal to how "sharply" you freeze.
>
> > (Putting -release in Cc to catch their attention.)
>
> Keeping that to ensure I'm not on crack with my memories :-)
You're not, it's IMHO a faithful wording of our position (with the
s/releasing/freezing/ fix ;p)
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