Re: GNOME 2.12 Proposed Schedule

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

I thought we agreed near the end of the 2.12 cycle that an API freeze 
for non-core exported APIs should be added to the release schedule.

There was discussion of several options, including:

(1)  requiring all exported APIs to follow the platform API freeze 
dates, or;
(2)  having a 'non core API freeze data' that came a little later than 
the platform API/ABI freeze;
(3)  making the freeze 'advisory' or just introducing a 'notification 
period'

making the freeze 'advisory' or just introducing a notify period would 
not solve the core problem in my opinion.

My vote is for option #2, maybe tieing this internal API freeze to the 
UI freeze date.  I think minor changes to internal APIs in a stable 
branch (i.e. for 2.12.1) should be allowed after the first stable 
release, but running it by the release-team for approval still seems 
like a reasonable requirement.

- Bill