Proposed schedule for 1.14 release

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:59:57AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Please let me know if there is interest in having a release at this
> time.  My proposed schedule would be as follows:
> 
>   For Wayland 1.14.0 and Weston 2.1.0:

Actually on review it should be Weston 3.0.0.

I'd still be open to doing also a Weston 2.0.1 and/or 2.1.0 if someone
would want to lend a hand on cherrypicking work.

Bryce

>   - Alpha on July 11th.  Major features done by this point.
>   - Beta on July 25th.
>   - RC1 around August 1st.
>   - Release by August 8th at the earliest
> 
> Bryce
> 
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:45:09AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:06:00PM -0500, Derek Foreman wrote:
> > > On 26/04/17 11:47 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > >On 21 February 2017 at 22:59, Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> > > >>Our next major release will be version 1.14, which will be scheduled
> > > >>tentatively as follows:
> > > >>
> > > >>  √ Development opens immediately
> > > >>
> > > >>  - 1.14-alpha in early May
> > > 
> > > And here we are.
> > > 
> > > >>  - 1.14-beta around mid May
> > > >>
> > > >>  - 1.14-rc1 late May, with rc2 only if necessary
> > > >>
> > > >>  - 1.14.0 around beginning of June
> > > >
> > > >I'd like to discuss this. As it stands, we're around a week away from
> > > >shipping an alpha, and feature freezing. At this point, we have
> > > >already committed libweston breakage such that the SOVERSION has hit
> > > >3. So far, we have nothing to offer for this breakage, just a bunch of
> > > >bugfixes and a pile of cleanups and groundwork that will only become
> > > >useful with future features.
> > > 
> > > libwayland doesn't seem to have seen any interesting change either...
> > > 
> > > >So, my question: is it worth releasing now, or is a delay in order?
> > > 
> > > This sounds good to me - based on purely selfish reasons, being that one
> > > patch series. :)
> > > 
> > > I think we have a backlog of stuff that hasn't landed because it hasn't been
> > > reviewed (and revised...), I see no harm in holding the release
> > > and no benefit to rushing it.
> > 
> > 
> > I am going to be on vacation next couple weeks but once I'm back I'll
> > have time to roll a release if you guys would like.
> > 
> > The schedule could be similar to before - an alpha on July 11th followed
> > a couple weeks later by beta, then one week for rc and another week for
> > final release.
> > 
> > If you feel Weston still is not in a releasable state I could just do
> > Wayland (although Wayland doesn't appear to have accumulated much change
> > since 1.13.)  Another option would be a Weston 2.0.1 with just bug
> > fixes, if people are available to help in cherrypicking suitable patches
> > to the 2.0 branch.
> > 
> > Bryce
> > 
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