[Mesa-dev] Upcoming Mesa releases

[Brian Paul]

On 06/07/2011 01:13 PM, Ian Romanick wrote:
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> We've accumulated a lot of fixes in the 7.10 branch, so it seems like we
> should do a 7.10.3 release soon.  How do Friday (6/10) or Monday (6/13)
> sound?
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> There's also a huge number of changes sitting in master, and quite a few
> distros are shipping "7.11-devel" in their bleeding edge repositories.
> It also occurs to me that releasing 7.11 in 7/11 seems right.
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> How does this sound for a strawman proposal:
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>   * Feature freeze / branch creation on 6/24.  From this point on, the
> 7.11 branch will be treated just like any other stable branch.
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>   * Mesa 7.11-rc1 on 7/8/2011.
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>   * Mesa 7.11-rc2 on 7/15/2011.
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>   * Mesa 7.11 final on 7/22/2011.
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> This gives two weeks until the feature freeze, and two more weeks (for
> stabilization) until the first RC.
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> Does this seem like a reasonable plan?
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> This puts 7.11 just about six months after 7.10.  Six months between
> major releases seems like a good cadence.  Mesa 7.12 (or 8.0) in January?
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Sounds good to me, Ian.

-Brian