[Mesa-dev] Mesa 18.0.0 release plan

[Kenneth Graunke]

On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 11:18:13 AM PST Emil Velikov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As you've know the Mesa 18.0.0 release plan has been available for a while
> on the mesa3d.org website [1].
> 
> In case you've missed it here it is:
> 
>  Jan 19 2018 - Feature freeze/Release candidate 1
>  Jan 26 2018 - Release candidate 2
>  Feb 02 2018 - Release candidate 3
>  Feb 09 2018 - Release candidate 4/final release
> 
> This gives us half a week until the branch point.
> 
> As this is shorter notice than usual, I'm open to adjusting the schedule by a
> week. Do let me know ASAP, if we should go that route.
> 
> As always - do list features/sets that you'd like to see merged. Thus we can
> all have a clear idea and prioritise accordingly.
> 
> Thanks
> Emil
> 
> [1] https://www.mesa3d.org/release-calendar.html

A few observations and some questions...

Although 17.3 was branched in late October, 17.3.0 wasn't released until
December 8th - about 6 weeks ago.  17.3.x also shipped with a pretty
catastrophic DRI3 bug that caused tons of applications to segfault,
which was fixed by 897c54d522ab960a879b763a15e489f630c491ee, but that
hasn't yet made it into a shipping 17.3.x release.  Arguably, I think
17.3.3 is going to be the first usable 17.3.x release.

So...is it too early to branch for 18.0?

- Have distros picked up 17.3.x yet?
- Is there anything in master that people are excited about shipping?
- There are about 2 months of work since the 17.3.x branch point
  (half of October, all of November, about half of December because
  so many people were on holidays).

I'm wondering if a mid-February branch point and March release would
make more sense, just to space them out.  Then again, I've also
suggested doing 3 releases a year in the past, since I thought they were
too close together.  So, if people disagree, I'm totally fine with that.

Just asking the question :)

--Ken
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