Re: GNOME 2.5/2.6 Hard Code Freeze

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:54, Murray Cumming wrote:
> GNOME 2.5 will soon be GNOME 2.6.0. Well done everyone.
> 
> As per the GNOME 2.6 release schedule
> ( http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/ )
> we should be in hard code freeze about now. This actually means that
> modules should be in hard code freeze after they have released their
> Beta 1 tarballs - hopefully everyone has done that already.

Erm, actually Hard Code freeze is on March 8th, and/or after you have
made your Beta _2_ tarballs. I am a fool.

> Hard Code Freeze is an extreme freeze but luckily it only lasts until
> GNOME 2.6.0 has been released. That should happen around March 22nd.
> 
> Hard Code Freeze avoids sudden last-minute accidents which could risk
> the stability that should have been reached at this point. No source
> code changes are allowed without approval from the release team, but
> translation and documentation should continue. Simple build fixes are,
> of course, allowed without asking.
> 
> If you need to break this freeze, please email the release-team, as
> described here:
> http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/tasks.html#ApprovingFreezeBreaks
> We don't want to get in the way.
-- 
Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc murrayc com

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