Re: Are we in feature-freeze?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Emacs 23 is in feature-freeze, right?

Yes.

> Or was it lifted?

No.

> (And while at that: what are the current estimations of Emacs 23
> release date or the beginning of its pretest cycle?)

Waiting for the number of open bugs to come down.  I've been overwhelmed
for the last couple months, so I haven't been able to help much on that
front, sadly.  I'm hoping to being the prestest around December/January.

> I see new features being committed to the trunk and plans of extending
> these features being discussed, so I thought I'd ask: is it okay to
> add new features at this time, and if so, which features can be added?

Other than the `daemon' mode, which features have been added recently?
I have no intention to extend the daemon mode before the release.

> For example, I have a working version of getloadavg for MS-Windows,
> which would allow "M-x display-time" to show the load in the mode line
> when Emacs runs on Windows.  Is it okay to commit changes to do
> that now?

I'd prefer to wait for that.


        Stefan