early code freeze for 1.9?

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 09:04 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 2011-06-02 07:07, Steve Borho wrote:
> > The amount of API churn on the default branch between 1.8 and 1.9 has
> > been truly impressive.  Would anyone object to starting the code
> > freeze (merging default into stable) a week early this time around to
> > give the nightly builds more *soak* time to catch latent problems
> > caused by all this churn?
> 
> -1
> 
> I don't think this will improve anything but limit development by
> cutting down the most interesting time window for developers.
> 
> The truckloads of users isn't using nightly builds anyway, no matter
> what we do on the mercurial side. They all wait for an official release.
>
> Let's stick to the plan.

Unless there's data to indicate otherwise (ie a graph showing a
significant uptick in nightly downloads after the freeze), I tend to
agree.

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