Re: Proposed Freeze Change

[Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> 2) Merge the old feature freeze and the UI freeze into one big
> freeze and call it something that suggests you're not supposed
> to make changes. I've been calling it THE freeze. I'm not good
> at naming things. Beta freeze? Software freeze?
>

THE freeze sounds awesome and clear enough.

> When we're in the freeze, you don't make user-visible changes
> anymore. No new supported formats or protocols or backends.
> No new UI. No changes to how a user interacts with the UI.
> You can fix crashes and address performance problems.

I think this makes sense. I can remember only a few freeze breaks I've
seen or asked that were about really crucial things.
Most of us try to not take big risks on the last few weeks, I believe.

+1 :-)