2.25 freeze - a little more than the holiday fortnight to go

[Florian Weimer]

On 12/21/2016 10:18 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> I'm dubious about keeping piling on "blockers" without evidence that there
> are actually people to review the patches no later than 31 December
> (earlier than that if revisions and re-review are needed).

My understanding of the meaning of “release blocker” and “freeze” is 
quite different.  An accepted release blocker can be fixed *in* the 
freeze period.  As a result, I have been focusing on things that are 
clearly *not* release blockers, and my attention will shift after 
January 1st.

On the other hand, features and non-regression bug fixes should 
generally not be release blockers because I do not think we want to 
potentially deviate from our time-based releases for their sake.

Thanks,
Florian