Fortran patch committed during freeze

Jerry DeLisle jvdelisle@verizon.net
Tue Feb 13 01:22:00 GMT 2007


Mark Mitchell wrote:
> François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, as was already mentionned, the branch status could be unclear
>> to someone who only read the fortran list. I second the request that
>> the change in the status of development branches are CCed to front-end
>> lists. I think this is all we need to talk about.
> 
> I agree.  There's no harm been done here, and no need to assign blame.
> I'd like people to respect freezes, but almost all of us have broken the
> tree, checked in during a freeze, failed to test something correctly,
> etc.; it's not a big deal.
> 
> I also agree that we should try to get the freeze status highlighted
> better on the main web page.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
I guess I am the culprit.  If I had a clue 4.1 was in freeze I would not have 
done it. (stating the obvious)

It was also not clear to me how to annotate the ChangeLog so I assumed the 
Author entry in the PR comment would be sufficient. (sigh)

I apologize for any trouble I may have caused.

Jerry



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