[HTTPS-E Rulesets] Ruleset freeze for 3.0 stable begins next week

[Peter Eckersley]

Hi all, 

Thanks largely to a huge amount of work from Negres/MB and other community
members, there are currently 1461 more active-by-default rulesets in the
development branch than there are in 2.0.  In other words, 3.0 will have more
than twice as many rulesets.

It's going to take quite a bit of work to get these rulesets tested enough to
ensure that HTTPS Everywhere stable branch users do not experience a suddenly
higher rate of buggyness.  Therefore, I think it is time for a ruleset freeze
in the master / 3.0 branch, to focus on debugging the existing collection.
During the freeze, new rulesets will be queued; they can be merged when 3.0
stable is released, and master becomes 4.0development.

What this means is that if you have any important submitted rulesets that are
not yet in git but you are desperate to see in 3.0 stable, you will need to
get them committed ASAP.

As always, the most reliable way to do this is to send a git remote URL to
this list that can be safely merged into master.

Failing that, you could try emailing Seth Schoen, MB, and Colonel Graff to
see if any of them are willing to commit your important ruleset.

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Peter Eckersley                            pde at eff.org
Technology Projects Director      Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x131
Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993