Re: Feature freeze (was Re: font-lock-comment-delimiter-face)

[Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>]

   From: Glenn Morris <gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk>
   Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:27:47 +0100

   2) should there be a new CVS branch for the release?

that depends on the precise release methodology, which hasn't been
captured under admin/ or admin/notes/, as far as i can tell.  perhaps
that action (and even the term "capture") goes against the hacker way,
even though it is accepted in other organizational structures...

at this time there is a frustration from people who have a backlog of
changes they would like to commit, but have refrained from doing so,
especially when they see the continuing drizzle of commits done by
others.

perhaps the well-restrained can help the drizzlers to taper off by
showing how they keep their backlog maintained (but ready for commit
once the next release is made), while working on the items in the file
FOR-RELEASE.  the idea is not to stem the hacking, but to buffer it in
such a way that rms' release-threshold criteria can be met, even though
we don't know the criteria fully.

thi