[FFmpeg-devel] [RELEASE] freeze

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:28:44PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 04:03:38PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> >> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > OK people, the time has come to freeze.  Two more weeks for the release
>> >> > remain.  From now on please refrain from committing anything that might
>> >> > be risky and/or not a bug fix.
>> >> >
>> >> > Documentation updates, cosmetics and similar changes are
>> >> > exempt from the freeze.  We haven't had a freeze in 200 or so
>> >> > weeks, you will survive 2 weeks of restraint now ;-)
>> >> 
>> >> What purpose does halting development for 2 weeks serve?  You could
>> >> just as well release svn HEAD now instead.
>> >
>> > Please no pointless discussions at this point.
>> 
>> It's not really fair to have one person (that would be you) dictated
>> the actions of all others.
>
> Nobody else volunteered to be release manager.

Nobody else wanted a release that badly.

> I told beforehand what I would do.

So you make an announcement that you intend to do this or that, and
then refuse to discuss it.  I don't consider that polite.

> It's a little late to complain now.

You never gave people a chance to complain.

> But I don't really care.

That attitude really drives me mad.  You start dictating how others
should work, and when they complain you refuse to listen.

> It takes less time to find out the result of this experiment than to
> discuss all its details beforehand.

The result will be that people will insist on using the "release"
rather than something that actually works.

> You are most welcome to lead the next release effort.

You know I won't.  Releases are pointless.

>> If people want the kind of "release" this will result in, a much
>> simpler solution is to set up a bi-weekly cron job creating tarball of
>> HEAD from two weeks prior.  Really, it achieves the same thing.
>
> Stop trying to drag me into pointless discussions please.

If you reply sensibly it won't be pointless.  The choice is yours.

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