[ros-kernel] ReactOS 0.1.5 Feature Freeze

[Vizzini]

All,

ReactOS 0.1.5 has been tagged and branched and is now officially in
feature freeze.  The branch tag is ros-branch-0_1_5 and the command to
update to it for testing/coding is:

cvs up -r ros-branch-0_1_5

Please remember that the branch is now in feature freeze, which means
that it is open to bugfixes but not to new feature development.  Also,
if you have a nontrivial or destabilizing bugfix, please run it by the
list first.

Code freeze will be next Saturday, with release of ReactOS 0.1.5 shortly
thereafter.  Full details can be found at
http://plasmic.com/~vizzini/release.html.

One minor policy change:  as discussed during the last release cycle,
any developer who commits a change on the branch is responsible for
committing that change on HEAD as well.  It will not be moved by me or
the release engineer(s).  

Also:  I'm not sure who's building and releasing this time around, but I
want to remind you of GvG's suggestion to build a RC1 ISO concurrent
with feature freeze and an RC2 concurrent with code freeze.  I
personally think anything we can do to ease testing and increase the
number of testers is a good thing.  Also, it gives the release engineer
a trial run at actually building the system, in case there are any
infrastructure bugs.  Jason, could we get space on reactos.com for these
pre-releases?  

A quick glance at the CVS traffic this month shows a lot of improvements
to the system.  I don't currently know of any release-blocking bugs,
although the cdrom.sys and mouse-related bugs would be prime targets. 
Assuming we get through the release process unscathed, we'll have a
release we can all be proud of.

 -Vizzini