Re: GConf reverse string freeze breakage approval

[Christian Rose <menthos gnome org>]

sön 2005-08-14 klockan 15:58 -0600 skrev Elijah Newren:
> On 8/14/05, Christian Rose <menthos gnome org> wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I never ever understood freezes this way. The way I interpreted it
> > (and which to the best of my knowledge was never corrected into anything
> > else) was that if a freeze was said to begin on a particular date, then
> > it was to begin that date, given some appropriate time zone slack of
> > course. That is, if a freeze was said to begin on Monday 8th, then we
> > would start gradually enforcing the freeze when Monday 8th would no
> > longer be, in any time zone of the world.
> 
> Right, but who said the freeze started on the 8th?  The schedule has
> it listed on the 8th through the 10th.

Ok, it seems I misinterpreted that part.


[...]
> Note that the timing that Mark and I had in mind would cause no
> problems with this; you'd start enforcing the freeze at the end of the
> day Wednesday.  Yes, we said modules would enter the freeze when they
> made the release, but that's a kind of self-imposed early freeze
> entry; doing it that way had the benefit of providing the maintainer
> with a solid association for the beginning of the freeze in order to
> help them remember it.
> 
> But like I said above, I don't care which way becomes official so long
> as one does and becomes documented so we don't hit this snag again.

Ok. Thanks for the clarification.


Cheers,
Christian