Proposal: Stop auto-syncs a week earlier (Debian releases on the 14th)

[Iain Lane]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:52:46PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> with Debian releasing on the 14th, leaving the auto-sync on until
> the 19th would have the effect of drawing in a lot of new packages
> just before feature freeze.
> 
> I suggest we instead stop the auto syncs a week earlier; either
> next Thu or next Friday (12th or 13th), to avoid that.
> 
> This does not change the feature freeze, so people can still manually
> syncpackage stuff they want, but please don't overdo it :)

Good point, it makes sense to me. I wonder how we could do this 
proactively in future, maybe document the precedent somewhere.

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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