[racket-dev] Release branch timing (was: plea ...)

Just now, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > Two hours ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> >> On Friday, October 7, 2011, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> >> > The whole point of starting the branch early is that it should *not*
> >> > be a factor in the decision whether something gets in or not.
> >>
> >> Are you saying this should not go in?
> >
> > Not at all.  I'm only saying that the actual time that the branch is
> > created should not be a factor in deciding whether something goes in
> > or not.  There should be some caution because the release is close, so
> > the existence of the release branch and the explicit requests to merge
> > things in should serve as a general reminder, making people focus more
> > on getting things stable, but it's not more than that.  Specifically,
> > my intention was not to change what goes into the release, and even if
> > we switched to create the release branch for 5.2 to be two days
> > earlier or two days later, I would expect roughly the same contents to
> > go into the release.
> >
> > (And this is in contrast to the previous last-minute-branch-creation,
> > where such changes *would* usually lead to different contents -- so a
> > good way to summarize the intention in the longer release-branch
> > lifetime is to avoid just such changes.)
> >
> > In any case, I get the feeling that this is not very clear from the
> > revised release procedure page -- maybe I should try to make a post
> > that clarifies things again?
> 
> Yes, I think I understand all that, and I don't see why this thread
> triggered that alarm bell in your mind. I just meant that since the
> release branch wasn't created yet, that that change was going in by
> default.

Then I misunderstood the "since" in your post.  (Since I did the above
I'm just careful of any seeing connections between the random time the
branch is created and what goes in.)

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