> I think now is not the right time to bring in more updates, as has been > asked by a few people already. We like to get a port right before > committing it. 'Anything is better than...' does not make sense to me. > I suggest you finetune the erlang port after tree lock and then it can > get the necessary testing.
Let's get this straight: it was asked for people to stop submitting non-important updates, or updates with a high risk of breaking things (like a large library change) due to the proximity of the next release. This is because subtle breakage is often not noticed for weeks, and we don't want to ship 3.9 with broken packages that people rely upon. However, bug fixes SHOULD be encouraged. The above is clearly a bugfix and should be a priority to fix for 3.9. In fact it is exactly this type of changes that people should be looking at right now!
