[Mesa-dev] Mesa 11.3.0/12.0.0 release plan

[Iago Toral]

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 14:01 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I think that sounds reasonable.

Iago

> >> (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
>