Re: [docbook-tc] Agenda suggestion

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
|
|> With respect to RFEs this month, I suggest we begin discussing a
|> "feature freeze" for 5.0. 
|
| I thought that going from beta to CR means automatic feature freeze
| (FF). But if I'm wrong I'm for as early FF as possible.

Well, we've still been discussing some RFEs that aren't bugs, so we
don't seem to have committed to a feature freeze yet.

|> I suggest that we make the cutoff date for new RFEs to be considered
|> in 5.0 14 days from the publication of CR3.
|
| Is it really necessary? Why just do not simply decide only on issues in
| you first list, then release CR3 and if there are no bug reports for one
| month then release final version of 5.0?

The 4.x to 5.0 transition is large enough that I'm trying to make sure
the public gets plenty of big red warning signs.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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