Feature Freeze and Review Board

[Martin Gräßlin]

Am 19.10.2012 19:35, schrieb 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.
fair enough, but what about all those features which happened between 
July and October and which nobody added, because people only add things 
to the feature plan to get two more weeks of hacking?

Also why enforce to change the wiki document now, when it is not 
required right *now*.

This has nothing to do with my request, but the feature plan we 
currently have does not list the features we ship. It might be that 
developers add it after promo asked for the third time that if it's not 
listed it will not be in the release announcement.

Currently from a developer perspective the feature plan is only used to 
get the two more weeks for hacking which ends up with many, many todo 
items to just get everything in one might work on and in the end it 
looks like we have nothing done at all.

All I want is to overcome this for at least the things which are 
already in progress by being on review board. We make here the life of 
the developers more difficult than it has to be.
>
> 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"?
maybe "release branch"?

Cheers
Martin
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Martin Gräßlin
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