https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=FeatureFreezing 2026-04-10T08:17:17Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.36.1 https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=FeatureFreezing&diff=5968&oldid=prev 2006-02-15T08:50:19Z

<p>Deleteme</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 08:50, 15 February 2006</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">see [</del>[[CreatingDists]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the release protocol </ins>[[CreatingDists]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, it is intended that at there is around one week's feature freeze ahead of the 'Hard Freeze'.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(Ben) Note that though virtually every HOWTO on open source software describes these stages in the release process, Inkscape seems to be uniquely punctilious (or shares with the Debian that honour) in observing (or at least documenting the observance) of them.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Whilst I am probably happier than most in using 'process' to ensure software quality, we ought not to go too far down that route!</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>link fix</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>see [[[CreatingDists]]]</div>

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<p>Spelling fix.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>=== Feature Freeze Mode ===<br /> <br /> In the run-up to CreatingDists, for a short time preceding the tagging of the release it's a good idea to<br /> hold off on adding new features or doing other major changes like architectural changes to the code <br /> that might decrease its stability. Whether a change is minor enough to be &quot;ok&quot; is left to the developer's <br /> judgement, and they're trusted to be conservative and careful.<br /> <br /> The most useful activity to do during a feature freeze is to locate and/or fix bugs that produce crashes,<br /> and to do so with the smallest amount of change to the codebase possible. If a &quot;proper&quot; fix requires<br /> architectural changes or redesign of the code, consider writing that up as a post-release task.<br /> <br /> -----<br /> <br /> It might be useful to branch off a release branch a week before making the release. Hopefully most people using CVS would switch to this branch at this time. Then only bug fixes can go into that branch. --[[Ted]]</div>

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