Planning for another Wayland release

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Bryce,

On 12 January 2018 at 00:31, Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> Is there interest in another release at this time?  It's been about a
> 1/2 year since last release, so feels due.  I could do a schedule
> something like:
>
> For Wayland 1.15.0 and Weston 4.0.0:
>
>   - Alpha on Tuesday, Jan 16

Honestly, I'm not comfortable shipping an alpha four days from now.

I did a clearout of the review queue last month, but that's not yet
complete, and I'd like someone to have a more structured look at the
queue (or just to look at all ...) to find stuff that should make it
into the next release. Currently, we have at least Derek's zombie
series, my atomic series and Pekka's clone-mode series, which are all
unlikely to land before Tuesday, but are seemingly very close to
having at least their foundations land.

I think it would be best to announce a date before FOSDEM, but make
sure we have a good handle on the state of the tree before we do and
make sure we don't unnecessarily drop things. That would include
keeping a close eye on how it develops, rather than just running
release.sh on a strict timer. I was pretty unhappy last time when we
put out a release in the middle of discussing a possibly-critical
patchset; reading the list would've pointed to a few hours' or one
day's delay as being helpful, but in the end the release just abruptly
went out and made the whole thing moot.

Given how much we could potentially be landing, I think we would need
someone more actively involved (patch-herding, review, testing,
list/IRC discussion) to handle the release process; I'm happy to do
that for this release.

>   - Beta on Tuesday, Jan 30
>
>   - RC1 on Tuesday, Feb  07

One week here seems a bit short, especially on the suggested dates; a
lot of people could miss that entire week travelling to and from
FOSDEM.

Cheers,
Daniel