Re: It is time for a feature freeze (it is NOW or never).

[David Kastrup]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 10:16:25PM +0200, Kim F. Storm wrote:
> > > > So when do we declare "feature freeze" ?  May 1st ?
> > > 
> > > May 1st sounds very good to me,
> > 
> > Too good to be true ?
> 
> Um, as you seem to be adding many of the new features these days,
> why don't you tell us?

Hey, that was _before_ May 1, to get a nice feature set to iron out.
One that will make people happy for the next three years we need to
get a feature release out.

Ok, the image stuff seemingly has a few discussions with possible
interface changes pending, but the features themselves were in before
the feature freeze.  And that's the point of a freeze: gather things
that really should get it before that all at once, so that one can
the solidify on everything afterwards.

With regard to solidification, I think that many of Emacs' scrolling
functions should get more comfortable with large-height glyphs.  While
we should avoid last-minute before-release changes (which might
introduce deadlocks and similar), quite a bit of changes in that area
would qualify not as "features" but as bug fixes.  The feature is tall
lines, and it needs work to be considered close to proper.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum