Re: Reminder of dates

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > The panel is largerly just a bloatist piece of "not so good code".
> 
>         And one of my fears about the impending 'Feature freeze' is that  
> we will enter an even more fascist "minimal changes" mode that only allows
> us to add semicolons to the code - thus leaving us with large swathes of  
> easily cleanable but unmaintainable code - that then we are forced to
> maintain in an even _more_ fasicst 'only add whitespace' mode for
> effectively ever.
>   
>         This would seem like a false economy to me - but ... perhaps
> someone will re-assure me that code changes won't be subject to individual
> review on a ';' basis after November the whatever.
>   
>         And here is the straw man for you to hit "Michael never wants to  
> freeze" - but no, I do - and there is a time and place for a minimal
> changes regimen, but it's not nearly that soon for something like the
> panel.

I would really like to know what confused you to the point of interpreting
the feature freeze mode as minimal changes mode. 

>   
>         Regards,
>   
>                 Michael.
> 
> -- 
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
> 

	Sander

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