[Mesa-dev] Mesa 10.2 release plan strawman

[Eric Anholt]

Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> writes:

> On 04/07/2014 09:14 AM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What's the point of having an RC is that is complete garbage?  If you
> can explain that to me, I will do the work of creating it.  Otherwise,
> I'll just skip the pointless busywork kthanks.

Mesa master runs for me almost all the time, and I haven't experienced
Mesa master being any less likely to run right around the branchpoints.
So, I disagree with you saying that not delaying would produce a garbage
RC.
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