Re: What happened to the code freeze?

[Nicola Pero]

> > Having many commits during a "feature freeze" is very good as it is
> > supposed to mean that a lots of bugs are being fixed. :-)
>
> As far as I can tell none of the recent commits in gui or back is
> related to any reported bug. [...]

Ok - thanks! - that clarifies the problem then :-)

I'm sure individual committers would probably disagree or have good  
arguments
why their changes should have gone in - it sounds like we need some  
simple process
to resolve the disagreements and decide what goes in and what doesn't  
go in at this stage ? ;-)

As far as I understand, you're in charge of GUI, so maybe you (and/or  
Gregory) could propose
how you want to manage that ?  Maybe patches for GUI must be approved  
by you before being
committed during the feature freeze ?

As an outsider, it does seem that GUI needs a few weeks of feature  
freeze and bug fixing, so I wouldn't
give up on that just because it needs to be organized somehow ;-)

(btw sorry, I don't mean to interfere - I'll disappear from the  
discussion of the GUI release freeze after this email)

--

For the part I work on (gnustep-make and core makefiles) anyone can  
make any small fixes they want,
but for substantial changes please talk to me before committing (this  
is always the case though). :-)

gnustep-make is quite ready for the 2.4.0 release, except that:

 * there is this long-standing issue of whether we should link all  
libraries or not when linking executables.
I was planning on making that configurable at ./configure stage (with  
some reasonable, OS-dependent
defaults).  It would be good to do this before a release, as it might  
change how things are linked.  On the
other hand, I have a feeling it's too late for 2.4.0, so I'll probably  
do it as the first thing after this release instead.

 * I haven't looked at how gnustep-make works on Apple at all.  I  
wanted to make sure the apple-apple-apple
settings and compiler/linker flags are meaningful and usable - at the  
moment, I don't think they are as many
people reported you have to tweak them in non-obvious ways to use  
it.   If I get some time, I'll try to do this
before the release.

 * I also wanted to look at the Cygwin port, but that may not have  
time before the release.

Thanks