[Reviewers] Freeze Warning on mercurial-devel@ ?

[Augie Fackler]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Pierre-Yves David
<pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

"""Hey folks,

We're a little behind on reviews because of the sprint and a couple of
other factors, and the freeze is coming up on the 18th. As such, we'd
appreciate it it you could hold any (new) large series for after 4.0
is done, so we can get caught up and have bandwidth for the bug fixes
that are needed between now and November 1.

Thanks!
"""

was what I had in mind.

>
>> 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" ;-)