On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 11:26 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: > Stephan Richter wrote: > > On Sunday 13 November 2005 10:48, Jim Fulton wrote: > > > >>Chris McDonough wrote: > >> > >>>I suspect there's just some miscommunication about who is actually > >>>supposed to make the branch. I have just gone ahead and made it. > >>> > >>>But yes, now that there is one, the 2.9 branch is frozen for features. > >> > >>I wish you hadn't done that. We shouldn't be making the branch until we > >>get to beta. We can't get to beta until a lot more bugs are fixed. > >> Everyone likes to work on new features, but we need to get bug fixed to > >>actually make releases. I'm worried that we aren't going to make the > >>time-based release schedule. The only leverage I can see is feature > >>freezes. > > > > > > Jim, I am really glad you wrote this comment. I was going to write a > > similar > > E-mail, but thought it would be out of line for me, since I am not involved > > in the Zope 2 development. > > > > If someone would have done that with Zope 3, I would have been pretty > > annoyed. > > Thus for Zope 3, if someone creates a release branch without discussing it > > with me first, then that person automatically becomes the release manager > > for > > that release. > > Yup. > > BTW, I'm sure Chris meant well. > > Chris, > > I appreciate that you were trying to help. > I still wish you hadn't made the branch. :)
Yes, I predicted I'd be punished. ;-) I don't understand why you would want to wait to make a release branch until a beta. What is the rationale? - C _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
