Standing FFe for stuff in the sponsorship queue at feature freeze
Clint Byrum
clint at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 27 18:38:26 UTC 2012
Excerpts from Micah Gersten's message of 2012-08-26 00:27:00 -0700:
> I would like to request a standing FFe for all items in the sponsorship
> queue before feature freeze. I don't feel that people's work should be
> thrown away due to a lack of available sponsors before Feature Freeze as
> we're all trying to get our own stuff in during that time. I propose
> that they be granted a freeze exception until beta 1 and that pilots are
> requested to focus on those items first.
While noble, and certainly a nice nod to our incredible community of
contributors, I would like to present an alternative point of view.
Sponsors' time is best spent sponsoring *bug fixes* after feature
freeze. If these items are given priority, its likely a bug fix will be
missed because of the same limitation preventing these feature requests
from landing.
Nobody is throwing them away. We're less than 2 months away from opening
"R", and these features will just be some of the first to land in "R".
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