The slip down memory lane

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 19:07:57 +0200,
  Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at 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.