Re: Freeze is too early

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery hilfy ece cmu edu>]

In message <019101be28bb$758999a0$6801a8c0@lunitari.azcrew.org>, "Michael Mathe
rs" writes:
+-----
| With all of these messages concerning the freeze and whether or not changes a
| re applicable...  Especially in light of a
| large amount of discussion concering UI and common dialogs.. Does anybody thi
| nk that MAYBE this freeze is a MIGHT
| early!!
+--->8

You have it 100% backwards.  The freeze is so we can *fix* these problems, 
rather than go off scatter-shot after lots of new features, leaving the 
current stuff broken.

In re common dialogs:  if things have to be massively reworked, make what we 
have work as best we can and redesign it for the next version.  (The 
linux-kernel folks follow this rule as well --- several things are already 
stacked up for kernel 2.3, including one that's considered moderately crucial 
but which can't possibly be done in a few weeks.)

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