On 7/5/2018 9:21 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
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
Fully agree, I suppose I'm wondering do we need to explicitly state that
it is possible but needs to be specifically flagged, I raise it only as
I had the same question raised to myself today. Playing devils advocate
I guess, maybe the danger of mentioning the exception process is that it
will be ab(used) :).
I think the approached outlined sounds good however, applied and tested.
Acked unless there are any objections.
Thanks
Ian
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