On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 07:33:06PM +0100, Ian Stokes wrote: > On 7/2/2018 9:57 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >+1. "Soft freeze" of the master branch. > >+ > >+ During the freeze, we ask committers to refrain from applying patches > >that > >+ add new features unless those patches were already being publicly > >discussed > >+ and reviewed before the freeze began. Bug fixes are welcome at any > >time. > + > > Would there ever be an exception here? I'm thinking if a patch is submitted > for an existing feature and the patch is deemed low risk (i.e. fairly simple > but useful). I'm aware we want to draw up a deadline and stick to it but in > the case like this should an exception be requested from a maintainer? Or do > we stick to hard deadline and only previously discussed patches allowed.
We do have a history of making exceptions. The closer we get to the release, the more motivation we need, in terms of high importance or low risk, etc.x _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
