[Mesa-dev] Mesa 11.3.0/12.0.0 release plan

[Emil Velikov]

On 29 April 2016 at 13:19, Iago Toral <itoral at igalia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 00:55 -0700, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
>> On Thursday, April 28, 2016 4:06:49 PM PDT Emil Velikov wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Here is the current tentative 11.3.0/12.0.0 release schedule.
>> >
>> > May 20th 2016 - Feature freeze/Release candidate 1
>> > May 27th 2016 - Release candidate 2
>> > June 03rd 2016 - Release candidate 3
>> > June 10th 2016 - Release candidate 4/final release
>> >
>> > With the above in mind we have three weeks to get new features.
>> >
>> > Do we have some serious work that we want to squeeze in and the time
>> > is not enough. Does the proposed dates align with distributions
>> > needs/expectations ?
>> >
>> > Kindly let me know.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Emil
>>
>> I'd really love to get fp64/va64 for Broadwell+ landed - with that in
>> place, we'll jump forward to GL 4.2.  We'll try and pull it off, but we
>> might need a little bit more time...
>
> We have just sent the first bunch of i965 patches for review so it is
> all going to depend on the kind of review feedback we get. It is a large
> series that touches a lot of things so I imagine it might take some time
> to get it in a shape where everyone feels comfortable merging it, but
> let's see.
>
So should we keep the dates as-is and re-estimate in a week ? Afaict
it's be nearly impossible to say how much extra time will be needed,
if any.

>> (I don't think Haswell/Ivybridge fp64 support is going to be likely in
>> that time frame, but hopefully we can pull it off for 12.1...)
>
> Right, we are finding tons of problems with the vec4 backend so that is
> definitely going to take some extra time.
>
Ack. Thanks


-Emil