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

[Jim Fulton]

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 12:38 -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
> 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?

Reread my posts.

Jim