Re: Doc team notifications of freeze breaks

[email protected] Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:00:25 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 8:01 AM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is true that the documentation team is currently unable to keep up
> with our release cycle. But removing freezes would create yet another
> barrier to us getting things back on track.
> 
> I don't understand the difficulty. Maintainers have to send an email
> for a freeze break anyway. All they have to do is add one address to
> the CC line. If they forget, release team just adds one address to the
> CC line of their response.

Maybe to keep things simple, we could say something like:

"""
No new features can be added anymore so developers focus on stability 
and the GNOME Documentation Project can document the existing 
functionality. Bugfixes of existing features are still allowed.

To break Feature Freeze you need two approvals from the release-team. 
Changes impacting user help should be announced to 
[email protected].
"""

because relatively few freeze break requests have any bearing on 
documentation. Would this be OK?

Michael