Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] libxl: ocaml: improve the bindings

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Dunlap writes ("Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] libxl: ocaml: improve the 
bindings"):
> Except that that basically calls into question what a "code freeze" is 
> at all.  At some point we just need to say, "No more, this is what we 
> have; from now on we work on bug fixes."

That's indeed what we have a policy for.

> The timeframe in which we did this kind of "cost/benefits" analysis for 
> new features was meant to have passed already -- the "grace period" has 
> already been three weeks; the schedule for the code freeze has been 
> published and hasn't changed in 6 weeks.

Right.

> While I can certainly understand the feeling of "just having missed" 
> when it might have been accepted, given the number of people working on 
> Xen now, I think we are almost always going to be in that situation.  We 
> can either keep slipping the window until we happen to get lucky enough 
> not to have any "really nice" features to add in, or we can set a hard 
> deadline and say, "Sorry, that will have to wait."  Feel free to make a 
> case for the first, but at the moment the second seems like the only way 
> to proceed to me.

I would like to suggest that it was a mistake to provide a releease
ack for something which wasn't ready for immediate commit.

Perhaps in future a release ack should be implicitly qualified with
"if committed within the next working day" or some such.

Ian.

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