Proposed 1.9 release schedule

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:16:11PM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this looks fine to me personally. I'll point out some specific feature
> cut-off points below, in case anyone wants to scream.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:42:53 -0700
> Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> 
> > We're coming up to our next scheduled release.  I've got a few scattered
> > events and holidays but looking at my calendar, these dates look
> > feasible and fit the timeframe we wanted:
> > 
> > * 8/14 (Friday) - 1.8.91 (1.9 alpha)
> 
> The end of big new features. I think this will cut:
> - any changes or additions to protocols installed from Wayland
> - introducing the proxy wrapper in libwayland-client
> - require WAYLAND_DISPLAY, and the other env variable additions and
>   changes in Wayland
> - building of libweston.so
> 
> > 
> > * 9/01 (Tuesday) - 1.8.92 (1.9 beta)
> >     + Feature freeze
> 
> Cuts:
> - pointer lock, if patching only Weston
> - Weston atomic
> - Weston dmabuf
> 
> > 
> > * 9/15 (Tuesday) - 1.8.93 (1.9 rc1)
> >     + Final freeze
> > 
> > * rc2 only if necessary
> > 
> > * 9/22 (Tuesday) - 1.9.0 (1.9 release)
> >     + Re-open trunk for 1.10 development
> 
> To clarify, "cut" means the essential patches need to have landed, or
> they need to wait for 1.10 developement to open.
> 
> Would you agree on the categorization between big and minor features,
> that is, alpha vs. beta?

Yes, works for me.  So alpha is sort of a "Feature Frost".

> > Notably, I'd like to shift from doing releases on Fridays to mid-week,
> > but that's mostly just for my own convenience.  If anyone prefers
> > strongly that I stick with Friday releases let me know.
> > 
> > I'm also shifting to calling the releases alpha/beta/rc instead of
> > alpha/rc1/rc2, since we don't typically consider that second one to be
> > an actual candidate for releasing.  Again, I'm guessing no one but me
> > cares, but if anyone wants to stick with the old approach let me know.
> 
> Yeah, that's cool.
> 
> Referring to http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-May/014955.html :
> 
> - alpha: all big features landed, only minor,
>    contained features after this
> 
> - beta: only bug fixes after this
> 
> - rc: only critical bug fixes after this
> 
> Seems like a good idea to keep on using, right?

Yes, it seems to have worked well so far.
So, same process really, just tweaks to the naming.

Bryce

> Thanks,
> pq

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