[Mesa-dev] Mesa 18.0.0 release plan

[Timothy Arceri]

On 18/01/18 04:25, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:00:26 AM PST Nicolai Hähnle wrote:
>> On 17.01.2018 01:23, Jordan Justen wrote:
>>> On 2018-01-16 13:57:37, Kenneth Graunke wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Related to this, what are the cutoffs for upcoming distro releases?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure for Fedora 28. Maybe Beta Freeze on March 6?
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/28/Schedule
>>>
>>> It looks like March 1st for Ubuntu 18.04.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule
>>
>> To be honest, I'm a fan of the predictable time-based releases and would
>> rather not do ad-hoc monkeying around with schedules as a matter of
>> principle. With the dates above and a conservative approach (there may
>> be additional RCs...), we don't have much wiggle room anyway.
> 
> Marek said as much on IRC as well.  It sounds like we should just go
> ahead, and 18.0 will be a fairly boring but hopefully solid release.

There has been a bunch of improvements/features added to r600 since the 
last release, also there has been fairly steady progress on radv so I 
wouldn't really call it that boring. Also pretty much all drivers now 
implement a binary format so games like dead island now work and load 
considerably faster.



> 
> --Ken
> 
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