[bind10-dev] temporary freeze and branching for snapshot; and release date

[Stephen Morris]

On 12/10/2011 17:30, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Do any DNS developers have plans for significant pushes to master 
> within next day?
> 
> I understand that DHCP may have some pushes.
> 
> DHCP's sprint ends a day after the DNS sprint, so my branching for
>  snapshot schedule needs to coordinated now between two different 
> teams and schedules.
> 
> Since we have two different sprints (DNS / DHCP) with same release
>  date, but different sprint ending dates -- it may add some 
> confusion to concept of freeze time for making a new branch for the
> release.  We now will give DNS team extra 24 hours or so to 
> potentially push in new code into snapshot that was not expected as
> part of the release. Or I make branch early and then have to deal
> with merging in DHCP-only fixes for the same release into my 
> branch. Any thoughts on that?

The sprints end when the respective sprint planning meetings start
(14:30 UTC on Tuesday for DNS, 18:00 UTC on Wednesday for DHCP).
Would it be easiest to just ask DNS developers not to merge to master
until the DHCP deadline has passed?

Stephen