[Mesa-dev] Mesa 19.2.0 release plan

[Emil Velikov]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 21:43, Mark Janes <mark.a.janes at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Eric Engestrom <eric at engestrom.ch> writes:
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> > On 2019-07-31 at 09:38, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Here is the tentative release plan for 19.2.0.
> >>
> >> As many of you are well aware, it's time to the next branch point.
> >> The calendar is already updated, so these are the tentative dates:
> >>
> >>  Aug 06 2019 - Feature freeze/Release candidate 1
> >>  Aug 13 2019 - Release candidate 2
> >>  Aug 20 2019 - Release candidate 3
> >>  Aug 27 2019 - Release candidate 4/final release
> >>
> >> This gives us around 1 week until the branch point.
> >>
> >> Note: In the spirit of keeping things clearer and more transparent, we
> >> will be keeping track of any features planned for the release in
> >> Bugzilla [1].
> >>
> >> Do add a separate "Depends on" for each work you have planned.
> >> Alternatively you can reply to this email and I'll add them for you.
> >>
> >> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111265
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > As per previous discussions (I don't remember where, sorry) as well as
> > internal discussions, I think we should add all currently open
> > regressions since 19.1 as blockers for this release.
>
> My understanding is that the "feature tracker" blocks the creation of
> the release branchpoint.  A separate "release tracker" blocks the
> release of 19.2.0.  Unfixed regressions go on the "release tracker", not
> the "feature tracker".  We backport bug fixes to release branches, but
> we don't backport features.
>
Yes that is correct. We are interested in features for the next few days.
Afterwords we'll focus on bugfixes.

-Emil