The road to the merge

[Christopher Blizzard]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 21:40 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:30:15PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > [...] it is pretty clear that there is not a small amount of work to
> > be done, and I'd really rather not interrupt the mad dash to get
> > things in before the Test3 freeze, since that is the Feature Freeze
> > as well. [...]
> 
> > Basically I want to give people a status update on where things are going, and 
> > what work still needs to be done, and what our expectations are.  I welcome 
> > input around when and how to flip the switch and whether or not dropping 
> > this "feature" in after the feature freeze is acceptable.
> 
> I'd argue that this feature is a meta-feature (e.g. it should not
> really be observable when someone grabs the final product what kind of
> buildsystem was used), so perhaps the feature-freeze does not really
> apply to this part. So, I think it's acceptable to add it after test3.

I just want to make sure that we don't get into a situation where we've
waited until after Test3 and then it's too late to make the change.

--Chris