[Reviewers] Freeze Warning on mercurial-devel@ ?

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 10/13/2016 03:53 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> Honestly, with the size of the backlog, maybe just issue a "no new
> feature work" edict now, and we'll try and land things over the next
> couple of days

Drawing a hard line is usually a bit hard (and/or frustrating on 
contributors side). There might be some very small features work that 
will be worth taking and probably many contributors with feature work 
open for a long time that requires a couple of extra round trip (eg: 
Gábor graft/rename series) or with work open for a long time (eg: half 
of Mads series on the list are actually follow up from a month ago¹).

I'm not sure what you exactly had in mind, my proposal would be to have 
a measured tone in the announcement and politely declining things we 
know we won't process.

> and roll -rc on Monday?

The wiki page and the calendar says the freeze is Monday the 18th. We 
should probably stick to that schedule to avoid surprising contributor.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/TimeBasedReleasePlan

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Yves David

[1] instead of the usual "Mads appears with large and new work the week 
before the sprint" ;-)