[Mesa-dev] Mesa 10.2 release plan strawman

[Eric Anholt]

Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> writes:

> On 04/04/2014 05:52 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>>> Fast forwarding 3 months from the 10.1 release (March 4th, planned for
>>> February 28th) is May 30th.  I'd like to propose the following set of dates:
>>>
>>> May 2nd: Feature freeze / 10.2 branch created.
>>>
>>> May 16th: RC1
>> 
>> Same comment as last time. It's not clear to me that we need a week
>> between the branch and RC1. We're not going to get users testing the
>> branch until there's an RC that distros can offer.
>
> The thinking behind having some gap is that a lot of people don't change
> from feature work to bug fixing until the branch is made.  There are
> usually a bunch of bug fixes landed right after the branch is made...
> there's also often a bunch of... chaos right before the branch is made.
>  Having an RC that doesn't build, has lot of known bugs, etc is useless.
>  Having a time gap between features landing and making RC1 allows things
> to settle down a bit.
>
> I thought your complaint before was that a week wasn't long enough.
> That's why I bumped it to two weeks this time.  I guess I must have
> misunderstood the concern.

FWIW, I also don't see the point in having the branch but no RC.
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