[ros-dev] Re: Trunk Freeze

[Casper Hornstrup]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Alex Ionescu
> Sent: 17. september 2005 16:25
> To: waxdragon at gmail.com; ReactOS Development List
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Re: Trunk Freeze
> 
> One person's opinion versus 10 others which agree with the freeze.
> 
> >Consider TRUNK unfrozen.  Have fun with your bugs, I'm going to enjoy
> >my weekend.
> >
> >
> I'm sorry, but I'm not going to let someone trash you down on IRC and
> overrule your (and the other devs') decision. TRUNK must remain frozen
> as decided. You're not the only one who made the decision to freeze it,
> others backed you, and you can't just unfreeze it like this without
> everyone else that froze it agreeing. This is a typical rule of common
> voting, and it's been originally made so that someone couldn't get
> bribed into making a unilateral decision after a group of people made
> one :). In your case, you were intimiated.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu

Why do you have to be such a drama queen? Pointing out that freezing
trunk is fixing symptoms instead of fixing the root cause of the problem
(which is the way we develop ReactOS) is hardly "trashing people down".
If you freeze trunk for a weekend now, then in a week you will have the
exact same problem. What will you do then? Freeze it at every weekend
from now on? How about we just stop developing ReactOS for a year, and
only test and fix bugs in that time?

If there is a such a freeze rule, why isn't it documented at http://www.reactos.com/wiki/index.php/Voting? I have seen discussions
on the mailing list about such a rule, but I've not seen a vote on the
subject yet. Why don't you just call for a vote on the subject and
document it in wiki? It only requires two weeks of time to instate
a new rule, but once it's done, you have the luxury of just pointing
people to the wiki whenever you want to use the rule.

Casper