6.8.3 release schedule?

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:42:57PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 01:04, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > With work on the 6.9/7.0 release starting soon, we need to find a way
> > to make 6.8.3 move forward without requiring multiple hours a week on
> > the phone for a whole group of people approving patches, if we want to
> > be able to have 6.8.3 go forward without holding back the other work.
> > That's dozens of people hours a week that can go to more productive
> > tasks - not all will go into X.org work, but if even some does, it's a
> > win over us all just sitting on the phone trudging through the patches.
> 
> I'll state this more strongly: if 6.8.3 requires lots of phone time, I just 
> won't work on 6.8.3.
> 
> My opinion is, 6.8 is at the point where if there's _any_ debate about a 
> particular patch, we should just reject that patch.  No phone time required.

Not to mention -- I don't believe patches for trivial non-functionality
areas (e.g. typo fixes in manpages) should be approved.  While those
sorts of things are worthwhile, it doesn't enhance 6.8.x's
functionality at all, and serves only to make the diff between point
releases any larger (last I checked, the 6.8.1->6.8.2 diff was around
130,000 lines, which, let's face it, is friggin' huge for a point
release).
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