Feature Freeze and Review Board

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Divendres, 19 d'octubre de 2012, a les 10:47:30, Martin Gräßlin va 
escriure:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering about the relation of feature freeze and Review Board.
> Right now we have quite some open review request for e.g. KWin or also
> Plasma. To me everything what is currently open as a review request is a
> "planned" feature.
> 
> Now given our feature freeze policy none of these requests may be
> merged after the soft freeze if they are not also listed in the planned
> feature wiki page.
> 
> This means I have now to tell everyone to edit the wiki if they want to
> get the feature in. I consider editing MediaWiki tables as a PITA and I
> consider manual work for something which already is in a computer system
> as quite stupid and I think the time is better spent on the code then on
> editing the Wiki document.
> 
> Therefore I would like to request the following change in our release
> schedule:
> "Trunk is frozen for feature commits that are not listed in the planned
> feature document."
> to
> "Trunk is frozen for feature commits that are not listed in the planned
> feature document or opened as a review request prior to the feature
> freeze."
> 
> Opinions?

It makes sense *but* having the wiki up to date with all the features is good 
not only for the feature freeze scenario, it also helps promo, QA, and other 
people to know what is new and what has to be talked about, tested, etc. 

So personally i'd like that you guys still add the stuff to the feature plan.

> 
> And when we are at it: could we change "trunk" to whatever is better
> fitting?

Can we just be smart people and accept that "trunk" is just a word and that 
the rest of the people is smart enough too and understand that for git it 
means "master"?

Because what other word are you suggesting instead of "trunk"?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Kind Regards
> Martin Gräßlin
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