The road to the merge

[Josh Boyer]

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.

Yes and no.  With a merged collection of packages (which can't happen
before koji is in place), you could potentially start enabling some
features in what were Core packages that previously couldn't be done
because the libs (or whatever) resided in what was Extras.

josh