Proposal for a JavaLibraryFreeze

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, November 04, 2010 12:08:02 pm Robbie Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 10:29 -0500, Robbie Williamson wrote:
> > What if we had a ToolchainFreeze, that covered GCC, Java Libraries,
> > and
> > Python...as changing any one of the 3 late in cycle can lead to
> > extreme
> > pain and suffering?
> 
> Given how adding more freezes is suboptimal, another option is to roll
> these into the DIF, and have it stand for
> DistroInfrastructureFreeze...or something like that.
> 
For Python, I think that's not a bad time to be making the final decision about 
what version is default, but I think for introducing new supported versions, 
it's far too late.  I think new Python (and in the future, Python3) versions 
should should be introduce with or at the latest shortly after the toolchain 
for the release (which is what we've done this cycle with Python 2.7).

Scott K