Hi all,
After checking into the status of the layer dialog and text toolbar, it looks like significant benefits will be had by delaying the Feature Freeze a few more days. So let's push it back to the 20th.
It probably seems like we're being awfully tentative in pushing into freeze, but my feeling is that minimizing the length of time we are in feature freeze, the less painful the release process will be in general. So I would rather delay Feature Freeze to let things finish ripening, than to push into bug fixing mode, and end up needing to continually delay the Hard Freeze date or the release date.
It's also been quite inspiring to see the team coming together and focusing on the major features - like the layer dialog and text toolbar - that we know users are really looking forward to in this release.
Anyway, to reiterate: Currently, please refrain from adding new features in the main codebase (use branches instead), but keep putting time into polishing existing features. Plan to wrap up by Saturday the 20th.
Bryce