On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:56:02AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Which brings me to a general question. Let's say I maintain software A > version 1.0 and it has open bugs during freeze. Then shortly after it I > find time to look at it and find that version 1.4 has been out already > which among others fixes some of the bugs. Am I allowed to put this into > frozen?
It is my impression that this would not have been allowed during the previous code freeze. Brian has made some comments that lead me too believe he intends to be slightly less strict this time than during the previous one. Personally, I think that this question should be answered on a case by case basis, after deliberation between the maintainer(s) in question and the release engineer (and perhaps, the general developer community), depending on factors such as the feasibility of extracting just the desired bug fixes out of the new code, the amount of changes that aren't related to those bugfixes, the importance of the package, the (potential) impact on other packages, how long we're in the freeze etc. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
