Re: Xen 4.3 development update CODE FREEZE HAS_BEGUN

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 16/04/13 13:57, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 16.04.13 at 14:22, George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> This information will be mirrored on the Xen 4.3 Roadmap wiki page:
>>   http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.3
>>
>> At this point, code will begin freezing.
>>
>> This means that every patch will need an exception to be accepted.  The
>> bar for acceptance will be relatively low this week, but will continue
>> to raise until the May 6th code freeze.
> So how does this "accepting an exception" look from a formal POV?
> Do non-bug-fix patches need an additional ACK from you? Or are
> committers expected to use common sense? Or yet something else?

Well, I have not been elected to any position, nor am I the benevolent 
dictator, so I am not in a position to dictate to committers what to 
commit and what not to commit.

However, I would respectfully request that committers ask for an Ack 
from me, if that is acceptable to everyone.

  -George