Doesn’t it make more sense to have the feature freeze in the beginning of January? Many people will take some time off work around Christmas and will probably have a bit of extra time to work on things they want to include in Emacs 24.4. I was planning to integrate ruby-tools in ruby-mode, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to do it by the end of the week.

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Cheers,
Bozhidar

On Sunday, December 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

If you want to install some new features in Emacs's trunk, do it now,
because the trunk will be feature-frozen starting next week-end.


Stefan "who wouldn't want Santa to come and install some
undiscussed new feature while we sleep"