[Reviewers] Freeze Warning on mercurial-devel@ ?

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 10/13/2016 04:57 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> 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!
> """

This looks good, thanks for putting it together.

Maybe add a small line about "Reach to a reviewers if you have specific 
concerns about one of your series".

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Yves David