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

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:48:42 +0200,
Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner at nic.cz> wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> Doesn't it kind of break the idea of continuous integration and snapshot release
> to stop pushing because of that?

I think it does, and I vaguely recall there was a discussion about
whether we can simply make a release a "real snapshot" at the time of
releasing.  And, in my vague recollection, there was objection due to
a rush of last-minute changes and regressions caused by them.

I tend to prefer honoring the sense of "continuous integration and
snapshot releasing", but I guess I have to admit our master is not
always super stable.  So, realistically, I understand if we some
"frozen period" is enforced.

This is a general opinion.  Regarding the implication due to the
different sprint timing for DNS and DHCP, I guess we should be able to
seek a better solution.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.