On 8/31/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
a) shortly before release
Perhaps it would be wiser to simply not include it in the release branch if that is a problem?
Perhaps it would be better to branch earlier so things don't get reverted solely for the reason of being shortly before release. People could commit non-major changes to both branch and trunk, and relatively major/untested things to trunk only (or, if they're lazy, everything to trunk only). Usually we only have a branch up for a few days, but revert things on the basis of being before a release for a couple of weeks beforehand at least, and in the last one or two cases for over a month beforehand.
But of course, our release manager has way too much to do already.