Release schedule plans for freedesktop-sdk 20.08

[Javier Jardón]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 02:08, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:26 PM Javier Jardón <jjardon at gnome.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 00:52, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:46 PM Javier Jardón <jjardon at gnome.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > We want to announce the planned release schedule for the
> > > > next release: [1]
> > > >
> > > > Putting it in here for your convenience:
> > > >
> > > > - 20200629:
> > > >   - 20.08beta1: First beta release
> > > >   - publish in flathub beta
> > > >
> > > > - 20200720:
> > > >   - 20.08betaX: X as we can generate more than two, but at minimum we
> > > > will have two betas
> > > >   - Publish in flathub beta
> > > >
> > > > - 20200810:
> > > >   - 20.08rc1: Hard freeze: no ABI changes allowed anymore
> > > >   - Publish in flathub beta
> > > >
> > > > - 20200824:
> > > >   - 20.08rc2: Second release candidate
> > > >   - Publish in flathub beta
> > > >
> > > > - 20200831
> > > >   - 20.08: Final release
> > > >   - Publish in flathub
> > > >
> > > > Please let us know any questions
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > fd-sdk team
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/wikis/release#release-plan-2008-runtime
> > >
> > > If it's to be released the 31st August, wouldn't it make more sense to
> > > just call it 20.09?
> >
> > If possible, I think we would like to keep 20.08 for consistency
> > (19.08, 18.08 ... etc)
>
> I don't think this is a very good argument. :)
>
> > > I also wonder what kind of testing we should be doing until then. What
> > > kind of changes usually happen during these rc? I assume applications
> > > will start adopting once they get to base themselves onto the final
> > > runtime anyway.
> >
> > Apart for individual testing of some apps (like steam), we expect
> > GNOME to use the betas
> > and RC's on the releases towards GNOME 3.38 (plan to be released the
> > 16 September);
> > Maybe we can try to do something similar with the KDE runtime? what is
> > your current release
> > cycle?
>
> For us the schedule is looking awkward. Qt 5.15.0 was just released
> now and it's going to be the last in the Qt 5 series, it's discussed
> here briefly:
> https://discourse.flathub.org/t/org-kde-sdk-5-15-0/526/6

OK, thanks for the info; I actually think it fits quite well, as you
can start using
the new fsdk 20.08beta runtime with the beta1 to be released next
Monday and still
have plenty of time to test

> We can surely put something together for further testing, we're using
> gitlab now. Last year you mentioned it would be easier to share CI
> resources like this, if I recall correctly.
> It would allow us to make sure it builds and some ad-hoc testing if
> people want to.

Yeah, sure!
Would it be possible to have (temporal) Maintainer access to the
repo [1] so we can add the runners there?
It's should be easy to setup; It should not take long; if not, please ping me in
IRC and we can coordinate other way

Cheers,
Javier

[1] https://invent.kde.org/packaging/flatpak-kde-runtime/