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33This is a temporary notice.
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5- From May 9th, 2025 until the 1st of August, 2025 we will perform a feature freeze. Only bugfix PRs will be reviewed
6- with the exception of already open ones. Every feature-adding PR opened in between those dates will be moved into a
5+ From the 26th of June until the 18th of September we will perform a feature freeze. Only bugfix PRs will be reviewed
6+ except already open ones. Every feature-adding PR opened in between those dates will be moved into a
77milestone to be reviewed separately at another time.
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99We do this because of the long backlog of bugs that need to be addressed
10- in order to contiue being the state of the art linter that Clippy has become known for being.
10+ in order to continue being the state-of- the- art linter that Clippy has become known for being.
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1212## For contributors
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1414If you are a contributor or are planning to become one, ** please do not open a lint-adding PR** , we have lots of open
1515bugs of all levels of difficulty that you can address instead!
1616
1717We currently have about 800 lints, each one posing a maintainability challenge that needs to account to every possible
18- usecase of the whole ecosystem. Bugs are natural in every software, but the Clippy team considers that Clippy needs a
18+ use case of the whole ecosystem. Bugs are natural in every software, but the Clippy team considers that Clippy needs a
1919refinement period.
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2121If you open a PR at this time, we will not review it but push it into a milestone until the refinement period ends,
@@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ debugging, sometimes interacting directly with the upstream compiler. Difficult
3333improves a lot developer workflows!
3434
3535- 🟧 [ Suggestion causes bug] [ sugg_causes_bug ] , Clippy suggested code that changed logic in some silent way.
36- Unacceptable, as this may have disastreous consequences. Easier to fix than ICEs
36+ Unacceptable, as this may have disastrous consequences. Easier to fix than ICEs
3737
3838- 🟨 [ Suggestion causes error] [ sugg_causes_error ] , Clippy suggested code snippet that caused a compiler error
3939when applied. We need to make sure that Clippy doesn't suggest using a variable twice at the same time or similar
4040easy-to-happen occurrences.
4141
4242- 🟩 [ False positives] [ false_positive ] , a lint should not have fired, the easiest of them all, as this is "just"
43- identifying the root of a the false positive and making an exception for those cases.
43+ identifying the root of a false positive and making an exception for those cases.
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4545Note that false negatives do not have priority unless the case is very clear, as they are a feature-request in a
4646trench coat.
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