Re: What holds the release (was: mouse-1-click-follows-link)

[Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>]

On 6/16/05, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> We have not had "three years of freeze".  It has been less than one
> year--and we are a lot closer to a release now than we were a year
> ago.

Oh, I got a bit carried away. It's not been three years of "freeze",
and I don't know the exact date the freeze was decided, but I've just
read a message by me on Nov, 4, 2002 discussing the exact same issues
that we're discussing today (only the feature-pack release was called
21.4 back then). Stefan said: "I obviously agree since I called for a
feature freeze a few weeks (months?) back already." Eli disagreed, and
a discussion very much like this one followed.

So we're kicking this ball for the past 2.61+ years. Doesn't that seem
a long time to you?

> I do not want to do releases more often by lowering the quality
> or having outdated manuals.

OK 100% wrt the manuals. "Lowering the quality" seems loaded language
to me, given the different POVs about the relative importance of
FOR-RELEASE items. And 100% disagree with you that branching for a
release and leaving the trunk for new development would "divert
resources" (you stated this position back then, if I'm not
misremembering). The truth is, when there's only one input point,
"feature freeze" is somewhat difficult to enforce, as past experience
shows.

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