- Feature freeze/branch off: I announced the feature freeze for 19.03 with just over a month of advance in NixOS 19.03 feature freeze.
- Release: In that topic, I mentioned a rough time when I was hoping to do the release, but intentionally not a specific date, simply because it’s unpredictable when it’ll be ready in terms of the blockers and such (and in this case, my availability around when I had originally planned was unfortunately a bit different than I had hoped).
My interpretation was that package subsets and stdenv shouldn’t be exceptions to the feature freeze, and should take place before it as well. I’m guessing the fact that this didn’t happen in practice was a failure on my part to communicate this (we should probably actually define the feature freeze?). @FRidh is there a reason for the package sets and stdenv not to be covered by the feature freeze? Or were you thinking of having an earlier cut-off date for those?