[Zope-dev] Reminder: feature freeze November 1.

[Jim Fulton]

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. :)

Jim

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