1.7 and 7.5 status: we're frozen

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 03:48:03AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:19:57AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> > XSERVER IS FROZEN.  PLEASE DON'T COMMIT ANYTHING MAJOR, OR ANY API
> > BREAKS, WITHOUT CHECKING WITH ME AND/OR PETER FIRST.
> > 
> > 1.6.99.900 will be rolled some time over the weekend, with .901 to
> > follow fairly shortly after that.  We'll branch the server when it
> > makes sense -- probably pretty close to .901 or .902.
> 
> How about branching NOW, if you are afraid of people breaking master?
> 
> Branching beats stalling. That was kinda the idea behind CVS:
> *Concurrent* Versions System. What do you think, are we up to such
> revolutionary concepts yet?...

What actual features are we stalling?

Would these features benefit significantly if they would be in master now
rather than in a few weeks time?

Cheers,
  Peter