El mié, 21-02-2007 a las 07:34 -0800, David Sean Taylor escribió:
> I would like to propose an official release date of version 2.1 as  
> February 27, 2007 (Tuesday)
> I know Steve has some big commits coming, but I would also like to  
> propose that all feature work complete by today,
> and that only documentation and bug fix work continues thru Monday  
> night.
> 

+1 (I add what I said about bridges)

I read recently that it does not make sense to cut a release *after*
voting it. Actually, the process they do in httpd and a few other
projects is more like a two phase commit:

- vote a (fuzzy) calendar
- feature freeze, alpha-N or rc-N releases
- once one of the rc-N releases reveals as good enough, it is voted and
becomes the version

The advantages of this strategy is that the committers vote on a
concrete tarball, with all its bugs and, in theory, no surprises. As
only very minor fixes are allowed between rc-N and rc-N+1, it would be
difficult to introduce heavy bugs in the "final" code.

As Roy put it, it only makes sense to vote on concrete code, not on
"intentions to do".

So I'd say, start feature freeze whenever, and repeat a vote when one of
the rc or snapshots seem to be ready to be released.

Regards
Santiago


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