Re: Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> No, I think that was the right time to make a decision. Before that 
> things were in a great state of flux. My suggestion is that there should 
> be some minimum time (I suggested 6 weeks to 2 months) between when the 
> decision is made/announced and the actual freeze date. In the present 
> case we would have probably have ended up with a date very like what we 
> now have, but without the June 1 false start, which many (including me) 
> felt tried to set the date too early and gave insufficient notice to 
> those who wanted to make the cut.

Except, as some have already mentioned, the June 1st "false start" as you 
put it, was never a surprise ... *shrug*

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