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

[Juan A. Suarez Romero]

On Mon, 2018-03-12 at 16:35 +0200, Andres Gomez 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.
> 
> 

+1 to this proposal.


Plus, if after the release an unexpected major issue happens, this will provide
us time to fix in the same week, rather to wait to next week.

	J.A.


> [0] https://www.mesa3d.org/releasing.html#schedule