Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bryce McKinlay wrote: > > > Mark, > > > Could we get an exemption from the freeze rules for low-risk, > > runtime only libgcj fixes as determined by the libgcj maintainers? > > I don't think we want to do that. > > First, we're close to a release. We've been waiting on one fix since > Friday, and Jeff Law has promised to fix it today. > > Second, the whole point of freezes is to ensure stability. We're > going to RC3 on this release because we've found bad problems in RC1 > and RC2. If a change were to be checked in, for whatever reason, > happens to break something, then we need an RC4, and everybody loses.
This kind of conflict is solved in version control systems by the use of branches...
