[GNC-dev] Feature freeze until when?

[Jean Laroche]

OK cool, thanks for that.

On 6/19/20 5:17 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Jun 19, 2020, at 4:03 PM, Jean Laroche <ripngo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I believe we're in feature freeze mode, correct? When can we go back to investigating new ideas (or even fixing bugs)?
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> You can do whatever you want in your own repo and you can make PRs with the results, we just won't merge anything that introduces new features, new translatable strings, or code that presents a risk of introducing serious new bugs until after we release 4.0 on the 28th and merge master into maint sometime the week or so after.
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> At that point small new features can be added to maint, anything involving major surgery or compatibility goes on master for incorporation into 5.0, and anything in between is a judgement call that the core devs will discuss and decide.
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> I guess I should add that PR reviews right after a major release may depend on how unstable that release is. 3.x had serious issues thanks to having to migrate to Gtk3 in the 6 months before and it took a year before we were able to stop full-time firefighting and think about features.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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