[Mesa-dev] [ANNOUNCE] Mesa 18.1.2 release candidate

Ilia Mirkin imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jun 15 16:47:46 UTC 2018


On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com> wrote:
> I don't even understand why we make these announcements TBH. I have a public
> 18.1-proposed branch that I push to *every weekday*. Anyone can pull that branch
> *anytime* to get the latest version. The only thing the announce email really
> serves AFAICT, is to say "the staging/proposed branch has been merged to the
> release branch". I don't think that's all that interesting TBH.

"any time" means "no time". The announcement is "speak now or forever
hold your peace". Gives driver teams a chance to review the list and
test things out before they go out into a full release. Should they be
doing this daily/continuously? Probably. But that's not the current
state.

  -ilia


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