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

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.

Robby