On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 19:07:57 +0200,
Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> Most features are fairly independent and don't cause problems when they
> run late or have problems, outside of that feature. Some are somewhat
> disruptive and can make it hard to test other things while they are having
> their kinks worked out or just waiting for rebuilds of dependencies to be
> completed. Those can cause a problem if they happen too close to a freeze
> since they result in work needing to be done in a very short time frame.
The problem is that those are the very features that are hard to stage,
because the sets of packages to rebuild often intersect.
I agree. My wish is that these be done a bit earlier so that they don't
cause problems when other packagers (and people working on spins) are up
against deadlines.