Satish Balay <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>> > Merges after freeze should contain only fixes that would normally be 
>> > acceptable to maint workflow.
>> >
>> > I've changed the current milestone 'v3.13' to 'master' and created a new 
>> > one 'v3.13-release'
>> 
>> Why this way?  Is the idea to bulk-offload everything we had intended to
>> get in this release?  I feel like we should ping those merge
>> requests/issues asking people to either commit to completing them or
>> defer to post-release.
>
> Currently there are about 50 MRs - likely most of them likely inactive.
>
> My thought is to make the default 'mater' (i.e post release) - and use 
> 'v3.13-release' for MRs we are actively working for the release. The other 
> way of identifying inactive MRs or the ones not destined for release (and 
> marking them as such) might not be easy. And usually the MR author is the 
> best judge of this (inactive, active for release, active for later). And if 
> active - can easily switch milestore to 'v3.13-release'

Only 19 of which had set the milestone (now called 'master').

> Sure - we should check with MR authors about this. In essence - this e-mail 
> is part of that check.
>
> BTW: I think we should work on getting as many MRs into release as feasible - 
> but not scramble to get everything in.

Yep, agreed.

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