Re: Releasing in September

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps some people are more interested in implementing new
> features than working on bugs and would just continue hacking and
> arguing about new features, at least a stability period may attract
> more committer attention into actual bug fixes, in short: no new
> features can be committed until the previous versions has reached at
> least beta2, rc, whatever. This may accelerate the stability process.

Or it might just accelerate the amount of time it takes to *declare*
having reached that milestone. Besides, do you really think that
people need to be able to commit something before seriously working on
it?

Rules that are expressly coercive are a *bad* idea.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan