[Mesa-maintainers] [Mesa-dev] [RFC] Mesa release improvements - Release schedule

[Emil Velikov]

On 12 March 2018 at 14:35, Andres Gomez <agomez at igalia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  * Release schedule: move from pre-announce Wed, announcement Fri [0]
>    to pre-announce Mon, announcement Wed.
>     * Why would we want to do this?
>        * We have delays in the release every now and then. When this
>          happens, we step already into the weekend which is bad for the
>          release team but also for the developers of specific drivers
>          who will have to test the patches in the queue before the
>          actual release.
>        * Moving the dates to Mon and Wed gives a bigger margin to a
>          delay without stepping into the weekend. It also gives a bit
>          more of margin in case we found straight away that a release
>          is problematic and needs immediate correction.
>
>
I believe that Ian/Carl had reasons for choosing Friday, although do
not recall the details.
I can see this proposal helping us, but it will be great if they can
share their train of thought.

There could be something that we're missing ;-)

Obviously input from others is also appreciated.

-Emil