[development] Prioritizing for code freeze

[Robert Douglass]

And everyone keep in mind - Dries and Webchick are doing a code sprint
on Saturday during European business hours (N. Americans wake up early
Saturday!)

Hang out in IRC and help crank out the patches and reviews. The whole
process will be brokered from the FrOSCon conference in Germany.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com>
Reply-to: development at drupal.org
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [development] Prioritizing for code freeze
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:29:19 -0400

I think your understanding is bang on.

Post Sept. 1, bugfixes are all we do until the release, with some 
noteable exceptions which are listed elsewhere. I think this would be a 
good time to knuckle down and try to get as many patches reviewed and 
committed in the next 11 days.

What are people's high-priority patches for D7? Which stuff do you 
really want to see included? It would be helpful if we had a list of 
'important' patches to focus on.

Jennifer Hodgdon wrote:
> We have, at this moment, 223 "patches to review" issues, 1698 "patch 
> queue" issues, and 357 "critical issues" for D7, according to the 
> Contributor Links block on drupal.org. It's hard to figure out what to 
> focus on, given so many choices. So I'm thinking about priorities for 
> the upcoming code freeze (Sept 1, right?).
>
> My understanding is that all new features for Drupal would need to be 
> patched, reviewed, and committed before the code freeze, or they would 
> be pushed back to Drupal 8. Those are easy to find, using the Category 
> field of the issue queue.
>
> But my understanding is that also any API changes would need to be 
> patched, reviewed, and committed before the code freeze, and there 
> wasn't any obvious way I knew of to find them. So, I've introduced a 
> new issue tag, "API change", which will help identify those issues, if 
> people start marking their issues accordingly. Thoughts?
>
> So am I way off base, or shouldn't we be focusing our patching and 
> review efforts on these areas between now and Sept 1, and leaving the 
> bug fixes (even "critical" bug fixes) for after the freeze? Is there 
> anything else that also cannot wait until after the code freeze?
>
>    --Jennifer
>