Jan Kurik wrote:
> " Beta and Final freezes are in effect from 00:00 UTC of the freeze day."
I always find this very misleading. IMHO, the freeze date announced should
be the day before (i.e., this needs no actual change to the policies, just
to the announced days) so that the announced date is the last date that
changes are allowed.
If I see a deadline given as Tuesday, I expect to be able to submit things
up to and including Tuesday, not Monday.
Intuitively, I completely agree with you. I want to have a last warning that I need to hurry up and land my changes before I miss my window.
But when I think about it further, I have other thoughts too. The schedule is public and anyone can look it up at will, so it's not as if this is the only warning they see. And there's actually net value to the Project as a whole to *not* give the 24-hour warning. We've always had a high incidence of mass changes arriving in the last 24-48 hours before each Freeze, which generally translates into instability for a few days because people see it as their last chance and land stuff that isn't ready. So I can actually see an argument for *not* widely encouraging more people to land stuff at the last minute.
We also do have the one-week notice the Tuesday before, which is probably our best option; we should continue encourage people to land in the week before Freeze and try to work out the instabilities beforehand.