Planning for another Wayland release

[Derek Foreman]

Hi Daniel,

On 2018-01-12 04:00 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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.

I'm able to dedicate time to these tasks for the foreseeable future.

If there's interest, I can take on a few release cycles.

Thanks,
Derek

>>    - 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
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