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

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> Except, as some have already mentioned, the June 1st "false start" as you 
>> put it, was never a surprise ... *shrug*
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> We've been aropund this block already, so I'm not going to continue. If you 
> think the process is working just fine then don't change it. I don't, but 
> then I am not in a position to make the decisions.

Note that I do agree with several of the suggestions and points that have 
been made concerning this ... I also agree that the knowledge was not 
known by everyone ... the point is/was that some were working to the June 
1st freeze ... for next release, we need to make sure that everyone is 
working to the same freeze ...

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