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Hi guys,<br>
<br>
This release (5.2.0) has been pretty horrible.<br>
We 've lost lots of time on:<br>
- cherry-picking commits<br>
- testing everything again and again (and again) <i>because the
last cherry-picked commit just changed everything again</i><br>
Which results in months of delay (branch date was 28-APR and release
date was 23-JUN).<br>
<br>
Let's make the next release less horrible :)<br>
I believe this organization problem is very easy to fix, by
introducing this rule:<br>
<b>Don't add new features after CR1 is branched</b> (on the
CR/final release branch)<br>
<br>
What do you think? Do you think this is a good idea?<br>
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With kind regards,
Geoffrey De Smet</pre>
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