To freeze, or not to freeze

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 08:19 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:

> I'm interested in what the rest of you think as well, both package
> owners and testers alike.  If you think our schedule time would be
> better spent fixing and verifying things pre-freeze and adding an extra
> week to the schedule, or just freeze as things are, and potentially slip
> a week during the freeze to make everything usable for the Beta (or the
> third option, things are fine as they are, just freeze and release as
> scheduled and stop being so paranoid).
> 
> What say you?
As I already wrote last week, I'd recommend to shift the whole release
schedule by the same amount of time the FC8/FC9 hiatus takes.

At least, as far as I my packages are concerned, the hiatus has had a
major impact, imposing a major slowdown on development, partially
resembling to a "complete still-stand".

Ralf