Re: Doc team notifications of freeze breaks

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 15:47 -0500, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Historically, our rules for freezes have required notifying 
> gnome-doc-list@ of any freeze breaks. This rule has not always been 
> followed (I'm a flagrant violator myself). Since nowadays
> documentation 
> operates on a longer cadence (generally years rather than months), I 
> think it really doesn't make sense to have these notifications
> anymore. 
> If there are any recent examples of a documentation change being 
> committed within the freeze window in response to a freeze break 
> notification, please let me know; otherwise, I don't think this
> change 
> should be controversial.

I think this is a mistake. One of the reasons we have a release cycle
with freezes is to give the documentation team (and others) a chance to
get anything done. If people aren't notified of freeze breaks, then
there is very little point in having the freezes in the first place.

If sending notifications is too much of a burden for maintainers, then
perhaps the release team should notify interested parties. Or maybe we
need to rethink how we handle freeze breaks entirely. Perhaps we could
devise a GitLab-based solution where the right people are automatically
looped in.

--
Shaun