Core-Dev Application: Till Kamppeter

[Soren Hansen]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 01:45:00PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote:
> We advertise Feature Freeze as a rather hard deadline for getting new
> packages into the archive. People rushing to upload stuff moments
> before FF kicks in is not an uncommon phenomenon. There's a reason we
> don't release right after feature freeze :)  I happen to know that
> it's usually not particularly difficult to get an FF exception
> approved shortly after FF, but for someone who's never done that, it
> might appear differently.

Hmm.. I should probably elaborate a bit: I'm not saying that uploading
broken stuff just to get in before FF is by definition fine because
other people have done it before. I'm just saying that it has happened
before, and I can imagine what makes people do it.

What should we do about it, though?

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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