Proposals for release delay and extending committers list

[Kevin E Martin]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:36:55PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 10:56, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> > I would like to send the following message (below the --cut here-- line)
> > to the xorg at fdo list this evening.  If anyone has any objections, please
> > let me know today before 10pm EDT.
> > 
> > Also, the delay brings up another subject: Adding more people to the
> > list of people who can check in code during the code freeze.  I could
> > use some assistance as the number of bugs have increased (probably due
> > to testing starting to pick up) and I'm still working out the problems
> > with the X test suite results.  In addition, I have two trips scheduled
> > for early September, and I don't want the release to be delayed while I
> > am away.
> > 
> > What do the other release wranglers think about this proposal?
> 
> I would be interested in being allowed to check in code during freeze. 
> Right now, #1138, #1156, and #1157 are in my sights, as well as a bug I
> think I noticed yesterday in the render acceleration along the same
> lines as #1157.

It sounds like some of this is already happening.  Jim checked in the
wraphelp.c over the weekend, and Keith checked in the change to make it
compile.  Both of which I think were the right thing to do.

Let's discuss this on tomorrow's release wranglers call.