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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Time to flush developer accumulated patches?
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:49:15 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Marco Costalba wrote:

> Reading mailing list threads it is becoming common these days to hear 
> about contributors with patches ready to be sent as soon as 1.5.4 is 
> out.

Which is good.

> Would be a good idea to open a new branch new_stuff as a target for this 
> pending stuff?

No.  The purpose of the rc cycle is to _stabilise_ things, which means 
that people should _focus_ on stabilising things.

If you give them enough to play with, they just get sidetracked, and the 
stabilisation is left to... Junio.  Which is not only hard on our good 
maintainer, but outright mean.

Ciao,
Dscho