Hi,
looking at the recent changes on the 2.9.x branch I see two new
features/improvements
landing right before the final release:
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/commit/179023a13fe2337407fbcb9137d106cf2c283372
https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/commit/6d5299349382b9f6fe85a46d432f4e988aa34833
This last one is so small that I would not have complained about it by
itself, but the first one is
definitely larger, even if well tested.
Our release guide states that we should be in "feature freeze" right now:
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/policies/community-process.html#release-cycle
I can only guess that people merging those pull requests on 2.9.x are
giving a different meaning to "feature freeze" [1], compared
to our practice of to only merging bug fixes, and be very careful with
those too right before cutting a release (as practice shows,
a bug fix can unintendedly introduce other bugs).
I'm not against change per se, practices do evolve over time, but I believe
it should be discussed in order to give everybody the same rules and
opportunities,
otherwise we end up with an opaque process and lose openness, which would
be even worse than losing stability and/or quality.
Can we discuss a bit about whether:
- It's acceptable for the release quality to add last minute changes
that are not bug fixes, and if so, do we want to drop the feature freeze?
- What kind of changes are meant to be blocked during the feature
freeze, and if the notion is a bit relaxed (and thus could spur debate),
what process needs to be followed in order to port back these
improvements to the freeze. Like, feature backport to stable in normal
conditions would require a quick mailing list vote, what would be the
process to add a feature/improvement during feature freeze?
Cheers
Andrea
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_(software_engineering)
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