Re: Plan for feature freeze?

Neil Conway wrote:
> On 30-Apr-04, at 8:53 PM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > For me even September 1st does not seem too late. Major version up
> > bring users pains including backup/restore application
> > imcompatibilty... IMO to justify those pains we need to give users
> > major enhancements. Honestly I don't understand why we should rush the
> > major version up.
> 
> Yeah, I completely agree. I think a feature freeze date of August or 
> September is definitely worth considering.

Tatsuo brought up the an excellent point (that I have been saying for a
long time), that the number of must-fix bugs from previous releases is
shrinking, and the complexity of new features is increasing.

This dictates the that length of our release process should lengthen
over time.

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