Some sort of freeze process?

[Simon Weller]

On Friday 02 July 2004 11:15 am, William Stockall wrote:
> Should people consider some sort of process for freezing packages which
> are to be released?  For example, all this discussion of whether to
> include yet another patch in the kernel.  What probably should happen is
> a package is frozen for release testing.  After that the only changes
> that go in are for problems introduced due to the proposed updates.  Any
>   further patches should go into the next release.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
yep I agree Will. That's kind of what I suggested a few hours ago as far as 
how crucial the patch is. Obviously if a massive root compromise comes out, 
it makes sense to patch it, but for everything else a freeze is logical.

- Si
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