David Abrahams wrote:
Thorsten, it's now a week past the freeze date, which was announced long ago.
Just to be fair this is to a large part not Thorsten's fault. That being said my decision would have been the same a week ago.
I want the new Range features, too, but it seems to me that unless you can come up with some really convincing argument why this particular library warrants making a special exception to the rules -- and I'm still open to hearing one -- we have to respect Thomas' decision as release manager.
I agree with Dave (on the really-convincing-reason part as well as the I-am-open part). The real issue is does it justify holding up everybody else.
That said, I think we should add the posting of a series of pre-freeze reminders to the release process, so those who lose track of the original announcement will be more likely to tie up their loose ends in time.
I agree that reminders as a courtesy are a good idea and I will try to do better in the future. I am unwilling to see their absence as an excuse.
This procedure will ultimately save lots of work for release managers as well (fewer extension requests).
I wasn't aware you're such an optimistic person ;-) Thomas -- Thomas Witt witt@acm.org