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authorCaleb Spare <cespare@gmail.com>2015-08-03 17:48:43 -0700
committerAndrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>2015-08-04 01:40:22 +0000
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doc: link to the release cycle from contribute.html
Change-Id: Ia5d41b66006682084fcbfac3da020946ea3dd116 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13093 Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
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@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ It also checks that the design is sound before code is written;
the code review tool is not the place for high-level discussions.
</p>
+<p>
+When planning work, please note that the Go project follows a
+<a href="https://golang.org/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle">six-month
+development cycle</a>. The latter half of each cycle is a three-month
+feature freeze during which only bug fixes and doc updates are accepted.
+New work cannot be submitted during a feature freeze.
+</p>
+
<h2 id="Testing">Testing redux</h2>
<p>