Re: 8.3 pending patch queue

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:33:38AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Someone (you, I think) advocated a '3 weeks and then dump the rest of the
> patches' (not quote as strong of wording, but similar) ... why not split the
> patches list up:
>
> submitted patches, not reviewed
> reviewed patches, needs work, waiting on author
> reviewed patches, ready for commit.
>
> Once feature freeze started, the first list should only get small patches to
> it, easily reviewed and committed ... then, focus on reviewing list A and move
> the patch to list B or commit it ... once list A is cleared off, we go into
> Beta ... if a patch on list B gets re-submitted before Beta, it gets reviewed
> and either committed, or punt'd to the next release ...

I don't think we want to be adding anything new in beta. But if we went
into 'alpha' when list A is cleared that might work.

(BTW, it's not really clear which list "A" is...)

> That leaves Freeze -> Beta being as long as it takes to get thorugh List A ...
> and the only thing punt'd to the next release being that which really isn't
> ready ...
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