Re: Proposal for radically altered approach to releases

> On 5/11/06, Beman Dawes <bdawes@...> wrote:
>
> <pasted from proposal>
>
>> We might say Sunday and Monday are merge days, Tuesday through Friday are
>> test days, > and Saturday is tag day. Since it is possible to
>> automatically tell if unexpected failures have > occurred, tagging can be
>> by automatically scheduled script.
>
> I know you were using a simplified example and you probably had
> something more concrete in mind, but do consider everyone's varying
> timezones (you probably did, or have a solution that makes the point
> moot).  Perhaps a SVN script that freezes stable during certain hours
> so that merges can't occur.  Then developers don't have to check some
> schedule online and do the time conversion themselves.