Re: Release process (was Re: Move to a cadence release model?)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:17:47 -0600
> 
> John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> We could avoid the feature freeze altogether, if we wanted, and instead cut
> >> the release branch and work on the release there without freezing master.
> >
> > That would be my preference. Let's cut release-25.1 this upcoming Friday 
> > night
> > at the freeze date.
> >
> > It does mean a commitment by developers to use and test with this branch 
> > until
> > the release is out. 
> 
> Which is precisely why we have a feature freeze phase; it enforces this
> desire.

We cannot enforce it.

> I know I would be _very_ tempted to ignore the release branch, to keep
> working on my latest Cool Feature instead.
> 
> If I know I have to wait for a release before I can merge to master
> again, I'll work on the release as much as I can.

These considerations will become valid only when we have enough
developers paying attention to bugs that are reported.  (That includes
you, Stephen, btw.)  The way things are now, almost no one does, so
the feature freeze period is just a waste of time from my POV.