Restricted feature-unfreeze for 3.5.3

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 20 March 2006 09:06, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 18 March 2006 21:50, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Saturday 18 March 2006 12:06, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > A Dissabte 18 Març 2006 19:45, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure:
> > > > personally, i'd rather see this happen on a case-by-case basis with a
> > > > conservative approach favouring fixes and non-feature-changing
> > > > improvements over feature additions rather than a full on unfreeze
> > > > which would just be a pandora's box waiting to happen.
> > >
> > > I agree here.
> >
> > obviously i'm cool with this compromise.. what about others, particularly
> > TWG members?
>
> That's basically the idea we had, too. Allowing a few
> feature-freeze-breaking commits on a case by case basis, particularly for
> features that have *already* been developed and tested. For instance
> Lubos's startup performance patches, tested in SUSE. The above PDF addition
> sounds ok too since the patch already exists. To keep this clear: we do NOT
> want anyone to start developing 3.5.x features right now. We only want to
> allow existing (and tested!) code to be committed. If anyone plans on
> developing any feature now, do it in trunk.

 David spoke a bit too soon, we still had a vote going on, but now it's 
official. We'll announce this in detail here after we sort out some remaining 
issues, but basically what's written above sums it up quite nicely.

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Lubos Lunak
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